Electrosave: anyone used it?

mountainlioness

Hi All

After a whopping and totally unexpected leccy bill in our new house I was asking around for some way of working out what the 'culprit' was. Was recommended an 'Electrosave' by a green supplier - apparently a wireless device that can diagnose which appliance is consuming what.

These apparently cost about £60 so wanted to see if anyone had any experience with these before investing...

Thanks!

ML

mkbean

I have an electrisave meter, its very interesting.

My electric bill as halved since i've been able to see my consumption in real time.

penrhyn

The cheapest approach is to use the monitor that you already have, i.e your electricity meter, take weekly readings and you will get an idea what you are using.
Then try some simple energy saving measures, like turning stuff off when your not using it. Spend the £60 on some energy saving lightbulbs.

maninthestreet

The electrisave measures instantaeous electricity consumption for an entire household - it has an inductive clip that fixes around the incoming supply cable to the meter, attached to a transmitter that transmits the reading wirelessly to a remote receiver/display. It cannot directly measure the consumption of individual applicances, but by switching a single appliance on or off, you can observe the change in total comsumption, and hence work out the actual consumption of the appliance. It has no memory - it can't record consumption over a day, week or month, for instance. For that you need the Efergy Smart Meter, which costs £15 less than an electrisave.

Graham1

£60 sounds quite expensive just to tell you when you are using a lot.

The simple anwer is things that produce heat (cooker, electric shower, electic fires, kettle, toaster etc.) are the things that use electricity at a fast rate.

Other things are generally only significant consumers if left on for long periods of time.

Cardew

maninthestreet wrote: »

It cannot directly measure the consumption of individual applicances, but by switching a single appliance on or off, you can observe the change in total comsumption, and hence work out the actual consumption of the appliance.

Without going over the discusion in this thread again

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=81565

The actual consumption of an appliance fitted with a thermostat, as measured by the electrisave, is of no use if you are trying to calculate costs.