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  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,011 Forumite
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    Monday. Ouch.
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
    Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024  70%

    Make £2023 in 2023  Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%



  • EssexHebridean
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    I tend to be sceptical over anything other than short term, regional / local forecasts. Have you had much experience with the app you have published, and what was the source? Ah I've just read Octopus Watch
    The Met office? Pretty well known I would have thought, and certainly the best known source of weather forecasts in the U.K. 
    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/met-office

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    I tend to be sceptical over anything other than short term, regional / local forecasts. Have you had much experience with the app you have published, and what was the source? Ah I've just read Octopus Watch
    Take wind and the pressure maps from BBC not much wind Mon ar 1500 isobars spread, and compare Sat very close together isobars likely loads of wind.



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  • RavingMad
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    Are we predicting it's going to be high until Friday? This month's bill is going to be a stonker
  • EssexHebridean
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    It's looking that way isn't it. I'm still just in credit at the moment for the month over the SVR but that's skewed by a very heavy use day on the 1st - with that removed the rest of the month would leave me just under £1 down, and that's going to be more significant by the end of the week I suspect! 
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  • greenbee
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    I'm still pretty well up for the month, but that includes the heavy use at the beginning of the month too. I think I might have been better off on Flux for the last week or so as I'd have been charging the battery at different times. But overall, it's still working out for me. I just need to get myself organised with a bit more automation!
  • wrf12345
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    edited 20 January at 1:10PM
    10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.
  • EssexHebridean
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    wrf12345 said:
    10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.
    Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water? 
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  • debitcardmayhem
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    wrf12345 said:
    10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.
    Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water? 
    You will still need the same amount of energy to raise the water to the required temperature
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  • QrizB
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    edited 20 January at 2:46PM
    wrf12345 said:
    10p less on the s/c until March and as ultra low user that still makes it cheaper for me overall, wanted to drink less coffee so an excuse to cut back to a mere two cups a day (I did not realise until recently that my 800W microwave is actually consuming 1400W!)... also the CH seems to consume about 100W for the pump, etc as well so have not turned that on for its morning session.
    Are you certain that simply using the kettle wouldn't be cheaper for you than faffing about microwaving water? 
    You will still need the same amount of energy to raise the water to the required temperature
    But the kettle will be much closer to 1 watt in = 1 watt out, unlike the microwave which (entirely typically) wastes almost half the power as conversion losses.
    There's a Technology Connections video all about it. I think it's this one:
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