Unfortunately house wiring very often has 'another' circuit just wired
into the panel before the main breaker (and sometimes without a breaker).
This happens everywhere and it's extremely dangerous. The meter should not
turn at all with no load. I would accept that an eletronic meter would be
sensitive enough to register the capacitive loss and creep current load in
the wiring with the breaker off, but not a mechanical one.

Peter

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