Are you serious?  It sounds like what you are saying is the electric meter finds
the phase with the highest current draw, assumes the other phase is drawing the
same and bases its measurements on that?

I would be very interested in finding out about this.  The larger of my power
hungry appliances use both phases, but the fridge uses only one.  Not to mention
the number of computers that use only one.  The way my place is wired, I
wouldn't be surprised if the loads were not distributed evenly.

This doesn't make sense...  It shouldn't be too difficult to add the current
draw from the phases.

-Adam

Andrew Kunz wrote:
>
> > This is also the measure of the amount of energy delivered.
>
> Not really.  THey charge you as if all phases were delivering the same amount of
> power.  If all your energy comes through one phase (because you have thing
> plugged into the breaker box in an unbalanced manner) then you will be billed
> the same as if ALL phases had that much power coming through them.
>
> In other words, you would be giving away LOTS of money.
>
> Andy
>
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