My mate reckons keeping is fridge switched off is saving him a lot of money?

HelenYorkshire

GreyQueen wrote: »

Flatscreen TVs are major energy hogs; does the OP's mate run one of those?

Are they? I thought they were less hungry than "big" TVs? :eek:

GreyQueen

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

Are they? I thought they were less hungry than "big" TVs? :eek:

CRT aka big tellies aren't too bad for the elastictrickery but plasma screens are thirsty bunnies. Has some chitchat on one of the threads a few months ago (cannot recall which one, sorry) and people were reporting their consumption up by several units each day after going plasma.

LCD flat-screens aren't too bad, tho. Someone more techie than me will no doubt wander by with some stats soon.

I have a destop PC with a CRT monitor which is EnergyStar for efficiency but if I'm going to be away from it for more than a coupla minutes I turn the power button off.

I'm a TV-less household and using under 2 kWH of electricity per 24 hours. Fridges are neglible users of juice, but they're on 24/7 so you want an efficient one, even so.

The best way to save electricity is to give up ironing.

McKneff

So if he is going to keep his fridge off, he might as well just keep the food in a cupboard, get rid of the fridge, more space in the kitchen

rhcp

At night, I use about 1p per hour electric, which is basically the fridge freezer and anything that I have on standby.

I used to have an old chest freezer and a small fridge. They were both very old. I found that the money I saved in electricity with the new fridge freezer paid for it in about 3 years.

colli

my grandparents never turned on the fridge my parents bought them, but then the only things they kept in it were their plates :rotfl:. Fair enough, they'd done without for 50 odd years but DID need an extra cupboard for the crockery

Penelope_Penguin

GreyQueen wrote: »

The best way to save electricity is to give up ironing.

:T

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll move it to the Utilities Board

C_Mababejive

Tell your mate he would fare better by leaving the fridge on but adding a "hot fill" loop to his washing machine as most pesky modern washers are cold fill and therefore use an in built immersion heater to heat the freezing cold water.

grahamc2003

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Tell your mate he would fare better by leaving the fridge on but adding a "hot fill" loop to his washing machine as most pesky modern washers are cold fill and therefore use an in built immersion heater to heat the freezing cold water.

There's a reason for that. They use so little water that even if it took the water from the hot supply, it would only fill with cold water, the hot water being drawn from the tank but only making it part way to the machine, usually. So that means you've heated twice the amount of water necessary - once to put hot water in the pipes, and once to heat the cold water from the pipes which fills the machine.

The op's friend could save loads of money by never having a bath or shower, or perhaps only eating cold food, or not turning lights on in winter...... another way of saying that, imo, you get excellent value from the £80 odd quid per year spent on running a fridge.

corbyboy

Surely a fridge that is turned off is not a fridge, it's just a cupboard.

Cardew

GreyQueen wrote: »

Flatscreen TVs are major energy hogs; does the OP's mate run one of those?

The older Plasma TVs certainly used a lot of power(400 -500w) but not so the majority of 'flat screen TVs' which tend to be LCD/LED these days.

Few 'fairly modern fridges' use more than 350-400kWh pa - about 10p a day. The other point is that an operating fridge produces heat so you are getting electrical heat to the value of 10p a day.