Fridge/Freezer

PennineAcute

Talldave wrote: »

Is that really all that's connected to the electricity supply in your home? No boiler, oven, microwave, doorbell, dishwasher, washing machine, etc?

Sorry, yes boiler. But the only thing I leave turned on, when going to bed, are F/F, TVs, alarm clock, boiler and router. Everything else is either switched off at plug, or on the appliance.

Talldave

PennineAcute wrote: »

Sorry, yes boiler. But the only thing I leave turned on, when going to bed, are F/F, TVs, alarm clock, boiler and router. Everything else is either switched off at plug, or on the appliance.

Then your 90w is not the quiescent load. My house settles at around 80-90w overnight but I have almost 30w of router/wifi consumption, TV, microwave, oven, dishwasher, boiler all in standby, two doorbell tranformers and a thirsty burglar alarm. My reading is live from a monitor not overnight average. If boiler comes on it adds 95w whilst it's on, fridge freezer will add something when it comes on but never measured.

coffeehound

Surprising how much power peoples routers draw. Do routers generally forget settings when they are turned off and need setting up again? Think my VM fibre/co-ax router would sort itself out after being switched off but perhaps that’s unusual.

kapum

PennineAcute wrote: »

Wonder if someone can help me.

According to my handbook, the estimated usage of my fridge freezer is 263 Kw per year. This works out at 721 w at day, or around 3 w an hour.

My daily base use is 90 w an hour, so deducting the 3 w, leaves a base use of 87 w. If this is correct, I cannot see how my router and two TVs (on standby) are using 87 w an hour.

Why not do the same exercise with your router and two TV's and then seek to uncover where the reamining electricity is going :cool:

kapum

PennineAcute wrote: »

Sorry, yes boiler. But the only thing I leave turned on, when going to bed, are F/F, TVs, alarm clock, boiler and router. Everything else is either switched off at plug, or on the appliance.

Yes, we leave all the TVs on in our house when we sleep too :rotfl:

Talldave

coffeehound wrote: »

Surprising how much power peoples routers draw. Do routers generally forget settings when they are turned off and need setting up again? Think my VM fibre/co-ax router would sort itself out after being switched off but perhaps that’s unusual.

No, they remember all settings so you could fit a timeswitch to kill it at night. But of course if you occasionally fancy a bit of nocturnal surfing or catch up TV, then you have to go and override the timeswitch and wait a couple of minutes for the router to boot/connect. You might also upset things like set top boxes and smart TVs that have a habit of doing housekeeping tasks in the middle of the night.

To clarify my somewhat abnormal usage, I have three BT wifi discs, four Powerline sockets and a router. The router alone is probably 5-6W.

matelodave

My BT router takes ages to reboot if it's turned off. If a power cut happens this then confuses my video surveillance cameras and some other stuff because they come back on line before the router does - even though I tried to fix their IP addresses, the router allocates them something different. Likewise it occasionally resets the port-forwarding and Dynamic DNS configuration which is a real PITA so I try not to turn it off.

Power supply outages are the main problem because everything reboots before the router has sorted it's self out. The Optical Terminal Unit has it's own back-up supply and I'm seriously considering getting one for the router (or changing the router for a better one)

Andy_WSM

Also worth considering that most failures in electronics are when a device is powered up. Therefore turning things on and off at the socket could potentially shorten their life negating the minimal cost savings in energy consumption. I have seen numerous posts on here where people have turned their boilers off to save tuppence in energy consumption and then had to have expensive replacement PCBs.

Talldave

Andy_WSM wrote: »

Also worth considering that most failures in electronics are when a device is powered up. Therefore turning things on and off at the socket could potentially shorten their life negating the minimal cost savings in energy consumption. I have seen numerous posts on here where people have turned their boilers off to save tuppence in energy consumption and then had to have expensive replacement PCBs.

Very true. All adds to my resistance to switching anything off. The only thing I put effort into was finding the TV settings to stop it polling its wired network connection, thus keeping the Powerline socket running at 5W instead of powering down to 0.5W. Annoyingly, the Powerline sockets crash every couple of weeks and need power cycling.