Electricty Monitors

bongoali

Hi all,

Just plugged in my Npower electricity monitor.

Have a laptop charging, one phone charging and a plasma TV on.

(Plus our smoke alarm, clock on cooker, and boiler on standby)

We're running at 0.355 kW/H which is much lower than I thought.

Any tips on how to know what an average reading should be (I know it's how long is a peice of string but I'm trying to get a feel for maybe one light on, TV on and maybe a phone charger).

Tried to google it but get a lot of american websites coming up!
Thanks

Stompa

I'd have thought the vast majority of that would be down to the TV. Try turning it off and see what happens.

amcluesent

IIRC from individually measuring my stuff

Phone charger < 10W, more like 5W (& broadband modem, router etc. were also tiny usage)
Laptop charging (not switched on), maybe 30W
LCD Telly 220W
When gas C/H running (pump spinning, controller on etc.) about 100W
Lights as per bulb rating

HappyMJ

bongoali wrote: »

Have a laptop charging, one phone charging and a plasma TV on.

(Plus our smoke alarm, clock on cooker, and boiler on standby)

We're running at 0.355 kW/H which is much lower than I thought.

The TV is most of that. Mine is reading 0.285 kw/h at the moment. I have 2 laptops (each 40W). The monitor itself. 2 phones charging and the slow cooker (120W). Whenever the convector kicks in it jumps to 2.270 kw/h. It's a 2kw heater. It's not much at the moment. Yesterday it was a whopping 16kw/h for a short period. Shower (8.5kw), immersion(3kw), 2 heaters(4kw) and the cooker. Ouch.