highpowered
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- Location
- los angeles
I have had alot of calls for high electric bills and most the time its a loose wire on the breaker or nuetral bar thats arching. The last one I did everything checked i took all the connections off there terminals restriped them and reconnected. The house is wired in aluminum romex so I thought maybe they screwed down to tight or nicked the wires. After I finished rewiring the panel the main nuetral going to meter went down 3 amps(it was at 7 amps). Total connected load measured was at 22amps from all the circuits. one circuit was pulling 10amps and that nuetral was returning 5amps. It was wired wrong in the sense that it had 3 hot conductors and 1 nuetral. Could this be the reason for a 150$ bill a month? Its a track home lot the house next door recieves a 40$ bill and the owner is old and does not turn AC on. They also used the old crimp connectors coming into the panel I was thinking maybe that was the problem??? any suggestions?? THANKS!!