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| Electroplated:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on September 28, 2022, 07:57:48 pm --- --- Quote ---I still prowl around in the middle of the night occasionally when I get an idea (even the RCBOs in the consumer unit run warm!) --- End quote --- If you fit the new all singing all dancing wylex mcb-rcd-afd your using roughly 6 kw/h per year,per device before you even switch the kettle on --- End quote --- That's one reason I am holding off having a newer CU fitted, I'm a retired electrician and don't always agree new ideas are good ideas. I did rewire my own home before I retired, the cables I replaced where not even 10 years old but had reasonably low insulation resistance, badly installed, pulled tight around corners and half of it was imported junk that suffered the infernal green goo problem caused by cheap pvc reacting with the copper and moisture I thought I was going crazy because the entire power consumption dropped a little, well of course it would, it was the same as having 4 x 1 meg resistors in parallel across the supply. |
| Electroplated:
--- Quote from: Kasper on September 28, 2022, 07:40:16 pm ---When you turn off all your little 'heaters', does your heating bill go up? Or for those in warmer climates, does your a/c bill go down? --- End quote --- Over here when we notice the effect of turning off mini room heaters the men put on thicker socks and some of the less hardier women stop shaving their legs :) |
| unknownparticle:
Another little rogue power munching device is, or potentially is depending on the type you have fitted, is the central heating pump. I had a problem with mine last season, it had gone noisy so needed replacement. When I took the old, I mean OLD, as in 20+ years old, Grundfos pump out I was horrified to see that it was rated at 120 watts!!. It was a single speed non modulating pump, so when it was on it was consuming the full 120 watts. So, the replacement was a smart pump with loads of settings depending on the type of system in use. For me that was 35 watts max and modulating, so sometimes less. That was last year, so I'm bl00dy glad I discovered that with the situation we have now! I've also stopped using my desktop PC, now use a laptop, and I'm going to stop even using that and go to a Raspi 400, which uses about 4 watts!! Plus the monitor of course. I will have to cut WAY back on messing with my high power PSU's, I have some that are 1KW plus, so load testing those at full power is no longer viable! The biggest offender is my Farnell H30-100, which is upto 30 volts and 100 amps, 3KW is just not on just for fun! Fcuk Put1n, the b4stard, messing up our recreation! |
| nali:
What about those natty little in home displays you get to tell you how much money you're saving with your smart meter? (according to the sales propoganda) |
| SiliconWizard:
Yeah? ::) |
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