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john in la

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I would like to hook my shop and we?ll pump for the property to my daughters electric meter due to shorter distance of running wires.

What I need is a way to tell how much of her electric bill I am using.

Short of having the electric company adding a new pole and meter is there a way for me to do this. I was thinking of adding a inline private kwh meter in the shop line if they make such a thing for a reasonable price.

Tks
 
Just get a meter box and cut the circuit you want metered though the meter. Or if in doubt hire an electrician.
 
Look up;

Leviton sub meter.

Once you figure out what the cost is for the model suited to your application you can decide if it is worth doing.
 
There's many places you can buy your own watt hour meter just like the one power companies use.

ebay, for example, $19 and up.

Wire a standard meter socket in the line to the shop, and plug the meter in.
 
It has been hooked to her meter for years with no
payments from me. So she is actually paying to run
a well pump that provides water to 3 homes. Mine
hers and her sister.

But there is talk she may build a brick home and
rent this trailer out. I do not see a renter agreeing to
those terms so I am looking into ways we can
separate the bill a get a true value of what each is
using.

Now that you know all the details do you have a
answer to the question.
 
I would think there are a lot of good used meters available, with many power companies going to the new remote-read ones. The one at our cabin I can read online every day.
 
That is a great idea Russ that I never thought of.

I just got a letter a month ago that our electric company is suppose to come by sometime in the near future and replace all 3 old meters on my property with the new remote read meters. My house and the 2 daughters houses. I will have to see if they will just give me one of the old ones.

Thank you very much for that idea.
 
(quoted from post at 11:51:30 04/08/19) That is a great idea Russ that I never thought of.

I just got a letter a month ago that our electric company is suppose to come by sometime in the near future and replace all 3 old meters on my property with the new remote read meters. My house and the 2 daughters houses. I will have to see if they will just give me one of the old ones.

Thank you very much for that idea.
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f you get one and it was fed via 240v, you should be aware that it will only read correctly if it is connected to 240, even if the load is only 120. meter needs both L1 and L2 to read correctly.
 
I have 2 KW meters, salvaged from my years on the FD. Many times you'd come up to a structure fire and
you couldn't wait the half an hour it'd take for the power co to show and yank the meter. We'd yank it,
shutting off the power, and get on with our work. I have one that reads 110 and another that's 240.
I've wired cords to them and use'm to measure usage on everything from various stock tank heaters, beer
refrigs in the shop, hot water heaters etc. I usually leave the appliance, or whatever, connected for at
least a month to get a good reading. Always very interesting. Our REA meter is on the farm service
entrance, from there it goes underground to the buildings. It's very easy to wire to the breaker or
service entrance to your shop or house. That's not REA's area. They stop at the their meter which is
the inpoint of electricity to the farm.
 
(quoted from post at 13:28:30 04/08/19) Sub metering is illegal in a lot of areas .You better ask the power company.
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That is only if your sub-metering in order to bill sub-customers.
i.e. a multi unit apartment building with only one power company meter.
 
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