This house is unoccupied for most on the time and is probably used 4 days per month. It uses mainly fluorescent bulbs, but also incandescent bulbs 7 x 40w controlled by 3 electronic dimmers switches as follows. 4 for two bathrooms and 3 in the living room. ( I plan to get rid of these in the new two months or so).
The appliances are a 18 cf no frost refrigerator and a electric water heater which is only used maybe days per month, while the home is occupied. The refrigerator however remains plugged in all the time.
The meter is an analog electro-mechanical meter like most of what we as Jamaicans at our homes.
Just a little history, 6 years ago I got a bill from the JPS which immediately struck me as being inaccurate. I went and read the meter myself and realized that the reading on the my bill was far different from what I noted on the meter. In fact the reading noted as present reading on my bill had not yet been recorded on my meter ie the meter had not yet reached those levels.
Armed with pictures of the face of the meter, the actual readings I had recorded along with a copy of my latest bill, I wrote a very strongly worded letter to the corporate office, which surprisingly responded within two weeks.
I got an apology and I was not billed for two months by which time my "real readings" had caught up with the "bogus" reading that had been on my bill. Since then I really have never had a problem with the JPS and my readings have been accurate since then.
Now for my bills this year when most persons are seeing increases.
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