High electric bill for no reason

Wait until the hottest part if the day. Turn off everything in your rig. Then turn off your power at the box/meter.
See if any of your neighbors A/C units stop.
Maybe something is wired wrong like laknox said.

My stick and brick with central air, pool, freezer, 2 refrigerators, electric hot water, electric range, and 3 telivisions runs under $200/month in central Florida.

kellertx5er wrote:

justinleebuckley wrote:
Does anyone know about how much power a 38ft 5th wheel with 2 AC's (which run all the time here in south texas during summer) should be using. I have the highest electric bill in the entire park. By more than 100 dollars. Was running around 160ish 2 months ago. Its in the 260 range now. My neighbors run both ac's as well. There bill is just 140 to 160.. Please help. I think i may have a faulty meter?

Something is wrong. We cool a 3000 sq ft home for that much. Many possibilities but 'something' is not right.

RVs are much less insulated than your stick home. Walls a couple of inches thick. There is no 10 inches of insulation in the roof. Slides often don't fit tight. Windows are not nearly as insulated and efficient as the standard double or triple pane home windows. It isn't sitting on the ground, so it gets no cooling or insulating effect that a basement, crawl space or slab provides. Your home is likely surrounded by grass, shrubs and other landscaping that does not reflect heat like a gravel or concrete RV pad. Your home AC is likely much more efficient than an RV. Finally, I doubt you enter and exit your home nearly as much as the average RVer does and when you enter and exit it is often into a secondary room (garage, mud room, entryway etc) the isolates the heat gain from the outside and the cooling loss from the inside. Square footage is a small piece of the puzzle.

justinleebuckley wrote:
Does anyone know about how much power a 38ft 5th wheel with 2 AC's (which run all the time here in south texas during summer) should be using. I have the highest electric bill in the entire park. By more than 100 dollars. Was running around 160ish 2 months ago. Its in the 260 range now. My neighbors run both ac's as well. There bill is just 140 to 160.. Please help. I think i may have a faulty meter?

Something is wrong. We cool a 3000 sq ft home for that much. Many possibilities but 'something' is not right.

Is your site metered and billed by the park or by the power company? First, I would check to see if your meter reading is correct. Second, especially if it is read and billed by the power company, check how many days it actually covers (often they are not read on a exact schedule, last month could have been 27 days and this month 35). If it is the power company, often times you get a stepped up rate after a certain amount of usage. Those last few kilowatt hours can be very expensive. Finally, depending upon the cost per kilowatt hour, $260.00 is not out of the realm of possibility. Your rig might have less insulation R value than your neighbor. You might set your thermostat to 70 and they run 75. You might go in and out more often. You might be using electric hot water, they are using gas. Then there is the fact that someone has to have the highest bill in the park. That's just a plain mathematical certainty.

What size AC Units do you have vs neighbor?

DO you run fridge/water heater on electric..........does neighbor use propane?

Do you leave lights ON, do you have TVs/computers?

Have you had park staff re-read meter.....easy to flip numbers if old style meter?

There is ALWAYS a reason for high electric bill....either using more than aware of or wrong readings.

justinleebuckley wrote:
Does anyone know about how much power a 38ft 5th wheel with 2 AC's (which run all the time here in south texas during summer) should be using. I have the highest electric bill in the entire park. By more than 100 dollars. Was running around 160ish 2 months ago. Its in the 260 range now. My neighbors run both ac's as well. There bill is just 140 to 160.. Please help. I think i may have a faulty meter?

First, make sure a neighbor isn't plugged into your pedestal. Second, contest the bill and demand an audit from the power company. We owned a commercial building and had an a-hole neighbor behind us stealing both power =and= water.

Lyle