House power meter question

[steve]

I had a question i wondered if anyone could answer. If you take a pipe and
hammer it into the ground in your yard and connect a wire to it,,and use
that as the negative wire,,then connect a wire to your ac outlet to the hot
wire. It reads on a meter around 110 volts but at a lower amperage. So if
you used that to say charge batteries would it bypass your house meter and
its working hall effect principal?? Would this be almost like free power if
it dont register on the meter,,even if its at a lower amperage? Any comments
appreciated..

 

[Phil Allison]

"steve"

If you take a pipe and
hammer it into the ground in your yard and connect a wire to it,,and use
that as the negative wire,,then connect a wire to your ac outlet to the
hot
wire. It reads on a meter around 110 volts but at a lower amperage. So if
you used that to say charge batteries would it bypass your house meter ...

** No.




........ Phil

 

[rowan194]

I had a question i wondered if anyone could answer. If you take a pipe and
hammer it into the ground in your yard and connect a wire to it,,and use
that as the negative wire,,then connect a wire to your ac outlet to the hot
wire.

Beware of natural selection... it often occurs when people attempt to
cheat electricity!

 

[Bob Parker]

Re-volting!

Amp-ly explained.

 

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I had a question:

Has Darwin struck again?

 

[Kevin Martin]

I had a question i wondered if anyone could answer. If you take a pipe and
hammer it into the ground in your yard and connect a wire to it,,and use
that as the negative wire,,then connect a wire to your ac outlet to the hot
wire. It reads on a meter around 110 volts but at a lower amperage. So if
you used that to say charge batteries would it bypass your house meter and
its working hall effect principal?? Would this be almost like free power if
it dont register on the meter,,even if its at a lower amperage? Any comments
appreciated..

See the switch next to the meter? Flick that off and you don't get
charged for any electricity usage at all. Your test equipment will not
measure any usage and indeed the meter will appear to have stopped.

It really is that simple.

--
Regards

Kevin Martin

To reply - delete what is "not required" (Abbrev) from my address.

 

[Lord Garth]

See the switch next to the meter? Flick that off and you don't get
charged for any electricity usage at all. Your test equipment will not
measure any usage and indeed the meter will appear to have stopped.

It really is that simple.

You will be charged a base rate...so not exactly true but close.

 

[jasen]

I had a question i wondered if anyone could answer. If you take a pipe and
hammer it into the ground in your yard and connect a wire to it,,and use
that as the negative wire,,then connect a wire to your ac outlet to the hot
wire. It reads on a meter around 110 volts but at a lower amperage.

closer to 240 in australia,

So if you used that to say charge batteries would it bypass your house meter and
its working hall effect principal??

no. the meter measures what comes in on the hot...

Would this be almost like free power if it dont register on the meter,

if it didn't register it would be, but it does.

Bye.
Jasen

 

[quietguy]

Amp-ly explained.

Ohm y! you do sing well

(or if I have to spell it out Oh my

 

[atec 77]

Ohm y! you do sing well

(or if I have to spell it out Oh my

Some is showing some Resistance to paying his dues.

 

[Bob Parker]

Ohm y! you do sing well

(or if I have to spell it out Oh my

It Hz when you say things like that!

 

[lentildude]

You can pull a few mA off the phone line before the line opens if
you want some free energy to charge nicads. Much easier to use a solar
panel though!

Another source of "free" energy is a tuned inductor tuned to local
radio station but you have to live fairly close to their transmitting
antenna. again only micro amps.

 

[Bob Parker]

Ohm y! you do sing well

(or if I have to spell it out Oh my

If you're gunna pinch electricity, you gotta plan it carefully. If
it was me, I'd do it in three phases.

Bob

 

[Two Bob]

Re-volting!

It Hz when you say things like that!

Thats shocking.

 

[swanny]

If you're gunna pinch electricity, you gotta plan it carefully. If it
was me, I'd do it in three phases.

Bob

Whilst there's a lot of power in that argument, what is the OP's capacity to do
so without resistance from the authorities?

 

[Ray]

Whilst there's a lot of power in that argument, what is the OP's capacity to do
so without resistance from the authorities?

This is a highly reactive thread, there is only one solution to the
original poster's problem.

The retroincabulator: http://media.ebaumsworld.com/retro.wmv

:-D


Cheers, Ray

 

[Bob Parker]

Whilst there's a lot of power in that argument, what is the OP's capacity to do
so without resistance from the authorities?

This is serious enough to report to A Current Affair to work out
watt's watt...

 

[quietguy]

Whilst there's a lot of power in that argument, what is the OP's capacity to do
so without resistance from the authorities?

It sort of depends on the frequency, though that is just gausswork and nothing for
me to CRO about


says Dave with a smile on his dial

 

[quietguy]

This is serious enough to report to A Current Affair to work out
watt's watt...

Oh Bob, tha tis so funny it had me in hysterisous (or it would have had if I knew
how to spell it)

 

[Bob Parker]

It sort of depends on the frequency, though that is just gausswork and nothing for
me to CRO about


says Dave with a smile on his dial

Look watt you've started, David! This subject's in a state of flux
now, but I've got a lot of reluctance to discuss magnetics because it's
not really my field.

Cheers
Bob