Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really.
Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really.
Says the man in France with the cheapest electric in the western world or certainly Europe.
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?
Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really.
The problem I like to solve is how to switch off dozens of devices (like networkswitches, APs, etc.) off at night without using a clockswitch which also consumes electricity per device.
Nice all the home automation but if each "smart" device has to be listening over "radio" be it BT, or zigbee or wifi or have an active ethernet stack running they aren't that smart anymore to use.
When you shower turn the flow rate of water down to a trickle. Don't reduce water temp
I don't want to lose the food in it though and I don't have anywhere that will keep stuff frozen for the hour it will take.
The problem I like to solve is how to switch off dozens of devices (like networkswitches, APs, etc.) off at night without using a clockswitch which also consumes electricity per device.
If someone has an elegant ultra low power solution preferably with a latching relay I would be very interested. Otherwise I have to build it my own.
And at this point I was going to make a closing remark that according to Domoticz our baseload, when everyone is asleep and everthing is off, is ~400W and that I did not care as that is the price you pay for all the stuff that makes modern living possible. Until I realized that 400W translates in 10kWh/day. Or, in current current prices, €9,- per day. Or €270,- per month. WTF indeed! The only thing between me and real problems is the 5 year energy contract I entered in May 2020. I am definitely going to hunt for power savings now, this is not future proof!
We've just bought and returned a Green Cell UPS that constantly draws a whopping 35 watts when it's just switched on without anything connected at the output side. Where all the energy goes? It gets warm. So much that our cats don't want to sit on top of it. And, yes, I had waited a whole day to make sure the built-in batteries were fully charged.
At our current electricity rate that would be 140 euros per year.
No mention of the standby power consumption in the published data. Now we know why...
Put an insulating blanket on your electric hot water heater.
When you shower turn the flow rate of water down to a trickle. Don't reduce water temp ( that just miserable ) but the flow rate. At full on most of the hot water misses the body anyway.
EDIT: Sorry, blonde moment, I was reading the power factor graph wrong. When the fish tank heater comes on the power factor rises. Which makes sense as it's a 100 perfect resistive load. Just need to work out why it's consuming 2 to 3 times its power rating.
Put an insulating blanket on your electric hot water heater.Does anyone have a hot water storage tank without insulation? I thought that stopped 50 years ago.When you shower turn the flow rate of water down to a trickle. Don't reduce water temp ( that just miserable ) but the flow rate. At full on most of the hot water misses the body anyway.If you find you need a high flow rate to get a good shower consider a new shower head. Some distribute the water much better than others. A large number of fine drops is much better than a small number of large ones.
It doesn't mention the Wh rating of the battery, but at £160 for a 2kVA unit with battery installed, I'm guessing it's not much, one of the 12V 40Ah batteries they show on the same page maybe?
The thing is, as I found, while the bullshit you get in the media on "standby power" is cringeworthy and usually highly inaccurate, the reality of "It all adds up" is a genuine factor.
Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really.
Says the man in France with the cheapest electric in the western world or certainly Europe.
So how come prices are skyrocketing there?
I have a different point of view on it.
Forget about all the tiny consuming devices. If you include them in your thinking then you are distracted from where the real problems are.
Hot water heater !!!!
Put an insulating blanket on your electric hot water heater.
When you shower turn the flow rate of water down to a trickle. Don't reduce water temp ( that just miserable ) but the flow rate. At full on most of the hot water misses the body anyway.
Refrigerator !!
Other than making sure the seals are good and air flow is good around the unit not much you can do.
Run the heat pump mainly when outside temp is favorable. In summer that is at night. In winter that is when the sun is on it.
Favor microwave instead of oven of possible ( unless you heat with electric resistance heat ).
More ideas ??