OWL Wireless Energy Monitor - your findings?

jasmin10

I agree, I have certainly changed how I go about things and like I say it has made me more aware so I perhaps think it's has done it's job.

It is very interesting to watch.

Magnolia

Zero'ed the accumulated total and read the meter - now to see is usage matches up to readings

Leblanc_2

The owl monitor has indicated how much our fairly new 40" LCD TV is consuming. We used to think it was not all that significant. It therefore used to be left on in the background. Now it is switched off unless we specifically want to watch a programme. We do tend to miss some programmes because of this but it is no big deal.
I have taken to re-siting the radio and listening to that more frequently. This is probably more educational anyway!
I have also replaced some of our light bulbs with low energy types and not sacrificing lighting by having lamps distributed throughout the living areas.
I am currently considering replacing our track spotlights with eco ones, although they are quite expensive and pay back will obviously take some time.
Our electricity cost for the winter quarter up to February was £155, I am hoping to get that down to about £100. So as I said the Owl Monitor should pay for itself quite quickly. I managed to get the newest version online for £31.
The only problem with all this is where do you go once you have made all the economies? Is it blanket and cocoa time in front of a candle?
Whilst making all the savings you feel in control (internal locus of control). Eventually you will have to accept that it is external locus of control, then we are into the realms of learned helplessness and depression!!

Magnolia

Okie Dokie - I have done my reading for the week and the totals seem to add up pretty close.

The meter reading for last week was 61488 - just so long as I have read the ruddy thing right - just in case I haven't I took piccies to make sure I could get someone to check it for me :rolleyes:



This weeks reading was 61589



This shows usage of 101 kwh - the owl showed 98 kwh slight inaccuracy but close enough for government work

I am told that the average usage for a household in UK is 13/14 kwh per day so working on that premise we are about average.

If I have made any mistakes in my readings would some kind soul please help me out. I do find these dials difficult to work out :rolleyes:

BTW to all the naysayers regarding the owl - it certainly makes you more aware of what is left on and where your leccy is dribbling away. Now I know my meter is more or less accurate maybe I will hire it out to my neighbours :rotfl:

dogder

I'm desperate for one of those, I keep asking E-on to give me one but so far it's no,no and no..guess I'll have to pay for one, PAY..dear me.

1carminestocky

dogder wrote: »

I'm desperate for one of those, I keep asking E-on to give me one but so far it's no,no and no..guess I'll have to pay for one, PAY..dear me.

Like actual users on here have said (beware the clever clever types who have never used one of these things being very condescending about the people who do use them, BTW) this is a rather unusual gadget in that, if you have bought it with the best intentions, i.e. to cut down your usage, this will pay for itself very quickly! If you can get it for as little as £31 on the net, at let's say an average pence per kwh price of 11p, if this thing helps you save just 281 kwhs (less than 1kwh per day) in its first year it's effectively cost you nowt. Plus given you something to intrigue your guests with when you ask them what they think it is! My FIL is an electrical engineer of many years experience and he struggled to come up with the answer when I asked him, LOL.

Magnolia

Dodger

£26.94 on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Owl-CM119-Electrisave-Mk2-Electricity/dp/B000LQ79Q6/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_text_b

dogder

Thanks again Magnolia.

I wonder how the owl compares with the Elergy module, so far from peoples descriptions they seem very much the same item.

penrhyn

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1carminestocky

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