Stay with supplier on a variable or move on to something else?

Alnat1

I guess you never know about any device, you could say the same about your electric meter.

BUFF

B0bbyEwing said:

BUFF said:

for £10 you can afford to try - & they also work as a  "smart" plug/socket.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Tapo-Monitoring-Required-P110/dp/B097YBXHTW

Have you or anyone else tested it out to see how accurate they are?

I know what they claim to do, what they do do though may be different.

Like the cardio machines at the gym or your smart watch for example. They tell you how many calories you burned doing an exercise.

Now we all (probably optimistic is that) know they're totally not accurate at all. But what they may do is tell you you burned [an amount], even if it's incredibly inaccurate. Then the next time you come to that activity, while being inaccurate, it may be ok enough to compare to your previous effort if nothing else. 

Likewise these devices. They may tell you it just cost you £5 for the 30mins it was plugged in. In reality it may have cost you only £1.25 or even £30, but if seeing that number makes you use it less then you're saving money, no matter how inaccurate the device is.

assuming that it stays consistently at the same level of accuracy/inaccuracy it is still useful for measuring relative usage of individual devices. One review that I read of a similar device by the same manufacturer said that it was consistent but 4% out compared to a clamp meter (& assuming that was accurate). For me, I can work with 5% level of inaccuracy but I am sure that there are more acurate equivalents out there but equally they probably cost more than £10.  

Mstty

New to this post,

Sadly you missed the boat on any switch and fix deals.

6 pages long perhaps someone has already stated this.

However Octopus may take new customers if you call them direct and every day the Agile and Tracker products are looking better and better value capped at 55p Elec and 16p Gas. Also attractive is a go tariff with cheap charging for an EV overnight at 7.5p kWh and you can also spank that with any other high load electrical device you can during that cheap period.

Other than that Utility Warehouse

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/-are-there-any-cheap--fixed-energy-deals-currently-worth-it--/

B0bbyEwing

Mstty said:

charging for an EV 

If only I had enough or earned enough for one of these things. 

Way out of my budget for a car I'm afraid. Thanks for the reply though.

B0bbyEwing

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

is there anything 100% accurate?

Yes.

It is 100% accurate to say that when someone questions a suggestion instead of saying yes boss, the incoming knee-jerk response is then for someone to take it to the end of the scale, one way or the other, as though there's literally nothing in between. 

Not sure why but you see it all the time on forums. 

In this case I was just questioning how accurate they were in an is it worth it, let's have a look kind of sense. If yes flowchart then says buy, if no then flowchart says don't bother.

Alnat1

The devices are manufactured to measure how much energy an appliance is using. As that is their main purpose then you would expect them to be fairly accurate.

If you bought a thermometer to check your temperature would you worry it wasn't accurate? Would you not buy one and guess your temperature because the thermometer might not be accurate?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

how did you know that the ones that were 'in line' were correct, maybe the one that was out was the only correct one?

Had you a  means to identify which ones were 'dead on'?

You've maybe kept the duds.