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| Gyro:
--- Quote from: nali on September 28, 2022, 08:32:05 pm ---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) --- End quote --- At least that has the decency to blank its display at night, it must save all of 100mW. :D To be fair, the guy who installed the meter said we could unplug it and chuck it in a drawer. It would probably help with the paranoia too! |
| Electroplated:
--- Quote from: unknownparticle on September 28, 2022, 08:24:16 pm ---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! --- End quote --- Old diverter valves tend to use a fair bit as well, people don't usually consider the cost of those running, its the gas they consider. I've just finished yet another bench psu, not a new design, a rebuild of one I designed 40 years ago, doing a full load test for 24 hours seemed a good idea, that is 150w plus for a whole day ! I have a few bench supplies but they all need to boot up and be twiddled with, most times I just need instant on and simple volt and current controls. |
| Electroplated:
--- Quote from: Gyro on September 28, 2022, 08:43:35 pm --- --- Quote from: nali on September 28, 2022, 08:32:05 pm ---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) --- End quote --- At least that has the decency to blank its display at night, it must save all of 100mW. :D To be fair, the guy who installed the meter said we could unplug it and chuck it in a drawer. It would probably help with the paranoia too! --- End quote --- We will eventually reach a point where these little helpful gadgets will begin to use more energy than we are saving, they show us whats using what, great but the people who invented them never took people like us into account, we use them to hunt every last watt of waste until the day arrives where the last watt to save is the one the little energy monitor is using. I have a junk box filled them, some I was sent by the companies but most where donated from people who never used them, its a pity LCD's can not act as little solar cells like LED's can, other wise I would wire them all together and collect some free solar, it could charge the battery on the led camping light I will be using if prices go up any further. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Electroplated on September 28, 2022, 06:55:33 pm ---Other things that are now turned off, the new washing machine that goes into sleep mode after playing a fancy tune, using 8 watts, the 2 watt cooker clock and the fake electric fire that used half a zillion LED's and a motor to produce a crap flame effect, when on it used 40 watts just for the flame effect, it was rapidly replaced with a more wallet friendly led effect using fading and flickering LED's, and some ceramic logs, it now uses 5 watts and is actually better to look at and far brighter. --- End quote --- The whole point of an electric fire is to produce heat. All of the energy going into those zillion LEDs turns into heat, so you're not really saving anything by replacing it. Unless that is you only want the fake fire effect and don't care about actually heating the room. |
| SiliconWizard:
Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really. ;D |
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