7.5 kwh per day?-electric monitor question

mrs_baggins

my local library are lending out electic monitors for a 2 week period-the type that registers your exact usage from the meter and gives an indication of how much you are using and the cost.

installed it yesterday and had great fun going round turning things on to see how much it goes up and down. read the blurb and it gives an average daily use for a single person of 7.5 kwh. however the day isnt over yet and i have aLready used 8.5! my tick over consumption with just freezer, fish tank , elec clock etc seems to be about 0.34kwh and although have had tv and pc on for a few hours today I relly dont see how I can use less. I turn everything off at switch apart from the dvd player which has a clock and always turn lights off etc. am really miffed now! anyone else had one of these and know your consumption?

penrhyn

Below around 500 watts these monitors are not very accurate.
Check this for yourself by reading your electric meter at the start and end of the 24 hour monitoring period that the home monitor uses.

The one I have reads around 20% high.

jessmist

Hi i have a owl energy monitor and i am using around 8-10 kwh a day at the moment.

anniecave

I can get down to 5 kwh per day if I'm here on my own and I don't have a shower that day! That includes a fridge freezer, a separate fridge, freezer and general use in summer. Winter would be a bit more because of lights.

Check your fish tank - that's probably the biggest thing that will be on all the time.

Sounds like you're not doing too bad really anyway.

Is any of your cooking on electric? Our oven is and that uses quite a bit.

mrs_baggins

thanks both. i will read my meter tomorrw. Jessmist-can I ask? are you single or is that for more than 1 person?

jessmist

mrs_baggins wrote: »

thanks both. i will read my meter tomorrw. Jessmist-can I ask? are you single or is that for more than 1 person?

Family of four
I also have a tropical fish tank running but i have the light set on a timer.If i compare my monitor to my meter over a weeks usage i find that my monitor is about 1-2 units higher than my actual usage.

Cardew

Single or couple doesn't affect consumption a great deal. The TV, fridge, fishtank are not affected.

Don't forget that the fridge/freezer will be using no electricity for much of the time so will not show on your 'tick over consumption'. It is only when the compressor operates will it start using electricity. Is your fishtank heated? pump on all the time? lights?

What sort of TV do you have - a Plasma can use a lot. A desktop PC 150 to 200Watts.

KillerWatt

Cardew wrote: »

A desktop PC 150 to 200Watts.

The speaker system on my PC uses more than that on it's own :rotfl:

4743hudsonj

KillerWatt wrote: »

The speaker system on my PC uses more than that on it's own :rotfl:

my car stereo uses 1500watt rms, glad thats not in my house and part of the leccy bill.

bryanb

4743hudsonj wrote: »

my car stereo uses 1500watt rms, glad thats not in my house and part of the leccy bill.

That's a measure of speaker output not elec used.

cybergibbons

KillerWatt wrote: »

The speaker system on my PC uses more than that on it's own :rotfl:

I bet it doesn't. Look at the power supply - it will be no more than 50W.