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Will add that to the list of things to play with tomorrow.. I achieved nothing constructive today whilst doing this so will have to get actual work done tomorrow, but that would be an interesting thing to look for. Might see if I can borrow someone else's meter as well. I have a contact who's...

That's interesting, google is just about keeping me up with this.. For my uneducated brain then.. After we've run around turning everything off, something with a capacitor would be back filling current which the meter is picking up? That should fade over time right? And couldn't last for...

Cool. The meter must be reporting some interference or something then. It goes to zero when removed. I assume it wouldn't falsely report as much as 140W though? Some friends suggest they can sit watching TV in the evening with the fridge on and their proper smart meters report that. We've...

Plot twist, for investigation tomorrow. Someone said in another forum. You don't have any barking mad old electro damp proofing like they put in in the 70s or 80s do you? Funny they should say that... See pic. I have no idea if it that was actively powered, google is struggling, or why it...

That seems sensible, thank you. Be interesting to see if that changes the reading when the consumer unit is switched off. Not going to get away with doing that now that she's installed on the sofa for the evening!

Hmm, looking at my own picture and the info above, could it be something to do with the live and neutral feeds being so close, so the clamp is over the wire but the other wire is very close to the clamp? I haven't tried moving them apart further. Something else to try tomorrow, it all adds to...

That's very interesting, thank you. So the Watts figure is the measured amps, and then an assumption of ~240V? That would make sense. I have a different plug in gadget which purports to show all those figures separately, https://amzn.eu/d/i7EqE9P I ran around the house plugging it in between...

Yes the meter goes to zero when the clamp is removed. Attached picture of meter with big red switches (There has to be a proper name for them) in the off position. Also picture of full installation. Also included the light in case that's a factor. It does appear that the light is powering...

Yes just a relatively cheap energy monitor thing which you clamp around a cable and it feeds a little screen which plugs into a usb socket. Will grab a pic of the setup.

Nope. Indeed it comes on when you turn off the main switch. I think it's supposed to do that so that you can see what's going on to fix a problem, but I'd guess the light in that case is running on a battery? That light might be a red herring of course. Essentially the query could probably...

I did wonder that, but it would require opening it up and removing presumably live wiring. I'm not an electrician, but confident with tools. Seems a bit dodgy though.. Hence the question on here before doing anything drastic.

In an effort to try and save what we can on these energy prices I just spent an hour or so going around the house and the consumer unit switching things on and off after attaching one of those clamp meter things to the supply. This is what I found.. Turning off everything we could find in the...