Electrisave

Dutchgirl_2 · 29 August 2005 at 9:48AM

I saw a review in the Observer of yesterday of meter that you can to measure your electricity use and which picks up very small changes (like using a energysaving lightbulb). Website: http://www.electrisave.co.uk/. It sounds quite useful if you want to cut down on you electricity use and want to see the effect immediately. It's a bit pricey, though, at £79.99.

Has anyone heard of this or used it?

Dutchgirl_2 · 29 August 2005 at 10:18AM

I just found a previous thread (mid-August) on this, which is very helpful

djohn2002uk · 29 August 2005 at 8:23PM

At £80 each, don't you think it would be a long time before you saved that much?

Woby_Tide · 29 August 2005 at 8:59PM

so for £80 you get to learn that using less electricity is cheaper than using more electricity?

penrhyn · 25 July 2006 at 12:13PM

Being a bit of a gadget nut I decided to buy an Electrisave last week.
I got it for £75 by quoting the discount code rws (royal welsh show) on the order, p+p is free.

Anyway I've found it quite useful so far chasing down what is consuming watt.
It will display consumtion in Kilowatt Hours, Amps, and cost in pence/hour.
It will not pay for itself ,just a bit of fun, but I am thinking of hiring it out to friends and neighbours to do their own energy surveys.

Cardew · 25 July 2006 at 2:13PM

Dutchgirl wrote:

I saw a review in the Observer of yesterday of meter that you can to measure your electricity use and which picks up very small changes (like using a energysaving lightbulb). Website: http://www.electrisave.co.uk/. It sounds quite useful if you want to cut down on you electricity use and want to see the effect immediately. It's a bit pricey, though, at £79.99.

Has anyone heard of this or used it?

Typical of a firm trying to cimb on the Green waggon and grossly overcharging for a simple device.

You can buy the same device from Maplin for about £12 and Netto have had them in the past for a Fiver.

They don't save you anything - they just tell you how much each device uses.
In fact often they have the opposite effect as you will be surprised how little some devices cost to run - like modern TVs on standby costing a few pence a year to run.

Jimbo_Jetset_2 · 24 October 2006 at 10:45AM

I was very keen on this device, but was put off by the price.
A quick search on google revealed one supplier offering the Electrisave for £60 plus £3.95 P&P.

http://innocentproducts.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=38

Good Luck!

yell25 · 24 October 2006 at 11:00AM

I have an Electrisave I got it from !!!!!! and received a free greeting card and a £5 off voucher for further discount on my next order, you also get free divine chocolate when you use the voucher.

http://www.!!!!!!/product_info.php?products_id=1194&osCsid=39307a0b944e01bb22363b3e9634adb4

I got the electrisave for £69 + free card and £5 off voucher. I used the voucher to get an eco kettle for £27.00 which I also got free coffee and a greeting card and another voucher for £5 off.

http://www.!!!!!!/product_info.php?cPath=73&products_id=1133

I plan to buy the eco balls, dryer balls and magno balls for a bargain price of £36 using the voucher system they have in place.

http://www.!!!!!!/product_info.php?products_id=1193

( eco balls are great I've looked into it, and it basically works out at up to 3p per wash for upto 1000 uses, its far cheaper then a 27p per wash from washing up powders and tablets!)

The service is pretty good as I've rang them a couple of time to find out how the gadgets work and you can carbon offset the postage.

withalj · 9 March 2007 at 1:11PM

penrhyn wrote: »

It will not pay for itself ,

I bought an Electrisave as a result of this week's Panorama and the cheapest I found was on Amazon Marketplace (£59), in fact one on ebay went for more than I paid on the same day! Just shows people don't check before bidding. It's expensive to buy but I think after you've gone around and worked what's what and got in the habit of turning stuff off you'd probably sell it on... from the above I might even make a profit!

You can see the total cost of the house, but by turning circuits off at the breaker box and appliances at the plugs you can narrow down where the cost is coming from. It really makes you realise what each appliance is costing and the gadget value is much more persuasive to OH and kids than me telling them to turn things off. I've already discovered that the part of the ring main servicing only my children's bedrooms is costing 9p per hour when they're not even in the house despite me telling them to turn stuff off. I've also rearranged how the appliances, computer bits etc are plugged in so as to turn off at the wall what's not often used and I've reduced my 'background' use from 4.9p to 1.2p per hour... which works out to an amazing £324.12 per year! That's already one fifth of my annual use.

In addition having seen the tumble dryer push the cost per hour up by around 30p, OH stopped daughter turning it on this morning for a single top and told her to wear something else! The power of gadgets!

I'm completely sold on this... it will pay for itself and it's fun and educational too...

Another complementary gadget is a remote control wall socket (http://www.ryness.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?categoryID=754&ProductID=3804, (not necessarily the cheapest, I haven't checked)) which allows you to turn stuff off at the wall where sockets are difficult to reach (or teenagers' tvs when they're supposed to be asleep without getting out of bed!!!)

dc · 9 March 2007 at 1:22PM

Just to add to Cardew's cheaper versions,
besides Netto and Maplin, Lidl and Aldi regularly have versions for £6.99. Every 4 months or so as loss-leaders.
They measure real time power consumption, useage totals and cost ( with your inputed unit rate), even measure power factor. A much smaller cost to recover. Admittedly this has to be plugged into one socket, one appliance at a time, but will be more accurate as the measurements of voltage and current are taken directly from connections to the wiring. Whereas the electrisave has no connection, and uses electromagnetic sensors.
These shops also sell the remote wireless controlled sockets as mentioned above in packs of 3 or 4 again cheaply, mine were £14.99 , 4 years ago, so possibly cheaper now. excellent for switching off bedroom tvs without having to put them on standby or get out of bed.;) The remote range covers all 4 sockets around the house, so you dont have to be within sight of the sockets.

The ecoballs were being sold by Poundland at 2 for the £ till the importers stopped/threatened them, I have been told that Tennis balls are as good.

withalj · 9 March 2007 at 1:38PM

As I understand it the cheaper ones have to be plugged into the socket to measure each appliance's use? For me the Electrisave wins where you don't have to go around and get down to all the sockets (especially useful in teenagers' rooms) and everyone likes 'to see what happens when I turn this on/off' thus getting motivation and participation from otherwise uninterested members of the family.

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