Octopus Agile

wrf12345

nuking a cup of water in a microwave is more like 30W, 1W LED bulbs suffice (used to be three for a quid in Poundland) - my elderly neighbour has every light on in her bungalow whilst I have one on! You have to tune your use to the tariff, no reason to make the energy companies even richer when they buy electricity for 8p and sell it for four times that.

bob2302

wrf12345 said:

nuking a cup of water in a microwave is more like 30W, 1W LED bulbs suffice (used to be three for a quid in Poundland) - my elderly neighbour has every light on in her bungalow whilst I have one on! You have to tune your use to the tariff, no reason to make the energy companies even richer when they buy electricity for 8p and sell it for four times that.

Why are you both quoting energy in Watts?

BarelySentientAI

bob2302 said:

wrf12345 said:

nuking a cup of water in a microwave is more like 30W, 1W LED bulbs suffice (used to be three for a quid in Poundland) - my elderly neighbour has every light on in her bungalow whilst I have one on! You have to tune your use to the tariff, no reason to make the energy companies even richer when they buy electricity for 8p and sell it for four times that.

Why are you both quoting energy in Watts?

At least they haven't started on "Watts per hour" yet.  Those discussions get 'interesting'.

wrf12345

30W is the power consumed in heating a mug of water, the cost is 30/1000 x unit rate (both the energy and unit rate are kwh so they cancel each other out), makes it easier to understand

MeteredOut

wrf12345 said:

30W is the power consumed in heating a mug of water, the cost is 30/1000 x unit rate (both the energy and unit rate are kwh so they cancel each other out), makes it easier to understand

You don't consumer power (W); you consume energy (Wh)

Newbie_John

Oh well, 30-50Wh 😅 point is that such a low amount costs almost the same at either 40p per kWh and 20p per kWh.

I don't like when people quote things in £, like radiator costs 80p to run per hours. It may have in 2021, but now it will cost 44p in July..

BarelySentientAI

Newbie_John said:

Oh well, 30-50Wh 😅 point is that such a low amount costs almost the same at either 40p per kWh and 20p per kWh.

I don't like when people quote things in £, like radiator costs 80p to run per hours. It may have in 2021, but now it will cost 44p in July..

Oh yes, the amount of queries that are suddenly solved when people think in kWh rather than £ is substantial.

bob2302

I've recently received my Octopus Mini. I  don't think I have much of a use for it, but I've been wondering if there is any prospect of its being used for billing. 

gt94sss2

bob2302 said:

I've recently received my Octopus Mini. I  don't think I have much of a use for it, but I've been wondering if there is any prospect of its being used for billing. 

No. It's not secure enough.

Spoonie_Turtle

gt94sss2 said:

bob2302 said:

I've recently received my Octopus Mini. I  don't think I have much of a use for it, but I've been wondering if there is any prospect of its being used for billing. 

No. It's not secure enough.

I've noticed that if it's unplugged, when it's plugged in again and catches up with the meter it shows all of the usage during the time it was unplugged as one giant chunk in the timeslot it's plugged back in.  Whether that comes under accuracy or security I don't know.