Energy Display Meters - I like them!!

Magentasue

epsilondraconis wrote: »

Unfortunately the experiment ended when I realised the wife was needlessly leaving her pocket torch switched on.

You mean it wasn't a wind up torch?

epsilondraconis

Looks like I missed a trick there Magentasue...

Magentasue

I do like the idea that your wife is one step ahead of you, though.

Woby_Tide

Magentasue wrote: »

I do like the idea that your wife is one step ahead of you, though.

he was using her torch light to save batteries

ariba10

We have a Morphy Richards 6.5 litre Slow Cooker and could not see any difference in the Med and Low setting so we decided to monitor the consumption of power.

We had one reading on High and a lower reading on Med, but Low and Med were the same.

Complained to Morphy Richards and they sent us a replacement, and the replacement gives exactly the same readings.???

espresso

epsilondraconis wrote: »

We have adopted this energy saving tip in our household, although the wife isn't too impressed with it. To ensure lights are not left on around the house, I've removed all of them and given each of us our own light bulb. Depending upon which room we are in, we can insert our allocated bulb into the desired socket to generate the required light. To overcome the transitioning from room to room, we have each been provided with a small pocket torch (a glove is also in the 'lighting pack' to assist with the removal of the hot bulbs).

I don't believe!

Vestra

Ken68 wrote: »

Nearly done this Rian, but have an inkling they change your tariff.

No your tariff (Domestic Standard, Economy 7) will stay the same but the affinity/add on will change to better plan, but the unit rates are all the same.

1cat2fish

Premier wrote: »

There are two types of energy meter, both with their pros & cons.

The type the OP is referring to monitors the entire consumption (like your electricity meter does, but more visably and with extra functions too). What it won't do is identify that part of the 400W 'background dribble' is in part caused by the 11W that washing machine is drawing even thought it is turned off.

This is where the lidl type device comes in handy. It measures the amount of electricity being consumed through a specific socket so tells you what each specific appliance is using. What it can't obviously monitor is the whole household consumption at once, or indeed those devices hard wired e.g oven, shower, lighting, extractor fans, etc

Erm, does that mean if I leave something plugged in but swiched off at the wall it's still using a small amount of leccy???
Sorry I don't know any thing about this, I just switch stuff off and leave the plug in the wall. I think I'm going to get paranoid in a minute!

espresso

1cat2fish wrote: »

Erm, does that mean if I leave something plugged in but swiched off at the wall it's still using a small amount of leccy???

No appliance uses electricity if it is switched off at the wall. It is not necessary to physically remove the plug from the socket to prevent the flow of electrons.

lu_lu_2

I have today been speaking to Eon, who supplied my monitor for free when I capped my tariffs, and they said that no monitor is 100% acccurate & most are only 70% accurate so my monthly elec bill which I thought was going to be about £28 is now likely to be nearer £40!!!!!! :mad: