strugging to lower my electric usage.

sniggings

jack_pott wrote: »

I've just replaced a 45 year old fridge with a knackered door seal, but the 2539kWh quoted above came from just before I bought the new one. (I got a big saving when I chucked out a 50yr old cooker with a duff oven stat, though.) The insulation at the bottom of my last freezer was so knackered that it accumulated an inch thick layer of ice on the outside of the cabinet!

yeah mine froze up too once, i defrosted it and up to now has not froze up again, it seems to be working fine, even with the seal the way it is, anyway I will turn it off for 24hours from today and see what my figures are tomorrow...if i get a 3 unit saving i may just put my milk outside to keep cold (inside is not much warmer) but if not much of a saving than I will have to be content with 9 units a day, as I can't reduce anymore.

Oh and I have checked on the TV standby and it's 0.7 in standby but 20w if in "monitor recording out mode" no idea what that is as it doesn't record, I have a freesat box for that, so I will just switch it off at the wall when not viewing as 20w is a lot for standby, it's more than my room light.

lstar337

We had an old fridge freezer (hotpoint) with poor seals, it was using 2+ units a day.

We got a A++ rated one which is much bigger, that only uses about 0.75 units a day.

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sniggings wrote: »

20w if in "monitor recording out mode" no idea what that is as it doesn't record,

That's when you set the tv to put the picture out on the scart lead for recording by an external recorder. It's 20W because the receiver itself is on, with only the display switched off.

sniggings

jack_pott wrote: »

That's when you set the tv to put the picture out on the scart lead for recording by an external recorder. It's 20W because the receiver itself is on, with only the display switched off.

great...I have googled this but not got any wiser, I don't use a scart, it's an HDMI cable so I'm I save to assume I'm on the 0.7w standby instead of the 20w standy or is they something in the menu I need to turn off too?

sniggings

well I have come to the conclusion I'm as efficient as I can be without going out and buying all new ultra efficient appliances...I turned my old seal broken fridge freezer off for 24 hours and my usage has not dropped from 9 units :eek: so it can't be using that much, or I'm reading someone elses meter:rotfl:

It must be the cooker that uses so much, that was only on for 1 hour again though, it's weird as I have looked back to December 2012 and I used 22 units a day but at the time I was using my 3kw electric heater a load, seems strange I'm down to the bare minimum now and using 9 kw but with a 3kw heating going for most every evenings I just slightly doubled my usage?

ValHaller

matelodave wrote: »

Go round and make a list of stuff and what it consumes - my laptop takes a bout 60watts = 500watts in 8 hours, a Sky-box can be consuming 40 watts or more. An old TV or a big plasma can be up to 200watts, even an LED TV is about 60-100watts depending on its size and how bright you have the screen.
Routers, printers, X-boxes and even some appliances will all consume power unless they are unplugged or turned off properly.
We've got electric recliner chairs and they take 16watts each, just by being plugged in, that's 280kw a year, so they get turned off (we use remote controlled mains sockets). The cooker, microwave and other stuff gets turned off unless it's in use.
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60 watts is about 0.50kWh in 8 hours (multiply the power by the time - Watts times hours is Wh)

280kw a year is meaningless. 16 Watts, just by being plugged in is 140kWh/year

lstar337

sniggings wrote: »

I turned my old seal broken fridge freezer off for 24 hours and my usage has not dropped from 9 units :eek: so it can't be using that much, or I'm reading someone elses meter:rotfl:

Maybe you are. You should still see a drop even if you have a modern efficient fridge. Are you sure it didn't drop?

matelodave

ValHaller wrote: »

60 watts is about 0.50kWh in 8 hours (multiply the power by the time - Watts times hours is Wh)

280kw a year is meaningless. 16 Watts, just by being plugged in is 140kWh/year

I'm not sure of the subtle difference between 500w and 0.5kw - although I would agree that it should really be kw/h but I'm sure most people know that without having it explained

I should also have made it clear that we've got two chairs = 2 x 16watts = 32watts x 24 = 768w/h a day x 365 = 280.32kw/h a year = £31 on my tariff.

The object of my post was to highlight that some unlikely stuff is quietly chewing up electricity without you actually noticing it. Even our washing machine, dishwasher & microwave are using about 5 watts each whilst doing nothing The cooker (clock & touch controlled induction hob) uses about 15.


We reckon we save about £100 a year by just making sure all stuff is turned off or unplugged when not in use

ValHaller

matelodave wrote: »

I'm not sure of the subtle difference between 500w and 0.5kw - although I would agree that it should really be kw/h but I'm sure most people know that without having it explained

I should also have made it clear that we've got two chairs = 2 x 16watts = 32watts x 24 = 768w/h a day x 365 = 280.32kw/h a year = £31 on my tariff.

The object of my post was to highlight that some unlikely stuff is quietly chewing up electricity without you actually noticing it. Even our washing machine, dishwasher & microwave are using about 5 watts each whilst doing nothing The cooker (clock & touch controlled induction hob) uses about 15.


We reckon we save about £100 a year by just making sure all stuff is turned off or unplugged when not in use

facepalm ...

It's Wh and kWh. That is Watt hours and kiloWatt hours

W/h is Watts per hour and kW/h is kiloWatts per hour. Which are meaningless

Speed is miles per hour, abbreviated mi/h so you know you divide distance in miles by time in hours. The slash means 'divided by'

Energy is in kiloWatt hours, abbreviated kWh so you know you multiply kiloWatts by hours.

matelodave

Thanks for that - I'll try to remember in the future:o