Electric Garage doors- do they use a lot of electricity?

Steveotwo

victor2 said:

Those switches/monitors have other uses after you've used it on your garage door. Mine is currently on my PC to give me an idea of long term running costs. Come Christmas it will be used as a timed switch for the tree lights! 🙂

My bulb is an odd voltage too, which is why I haven't replaced it with an LED bulb.

Very interesting, sound like you are a lot more clued up on these things than I am 😅 I just took the bulb out, I have an LED light in there so its not needed

Kiran

Steveotwo said:

Kiran said:

I'm pretty sure mine is similar power usage. It's money well spent in my opinion anyway as the kids can open the garage door using Alexa and there's no danger of them dropping an up and over on their heads or something

Not sure mine is that posh

Mine absolutely wasn't that posh, fortunately you can fit an aftermarket unit for under £30. Mine was a 2 wire connection and plugs into a standard plug socket

ThisIsWeird

victor2 said:

Those switches/monitors have other uses after you've used it on your garage door. Mine is currently on my PC to give me an idea of long term running costs. Come Christmas it will be used as a timed switch for the tree lights! 🙂

My bulb is an odd voltage too, which is why I haven't replaced it with an LED bulb.

Steveo, meet Victor. Victor, this is Steveo. You two are gonna get along just great...

Steveotwo

Kiran said:

Steveotwo said:

Kiran said:

I'm pretty sure mine is similar power usage. It's money well spent in my opinion anyway as the kids can open the garage door using Alexa and there's no danger of them dropping an up and over on their heads or something

Not sure mine is that posh

Mine absolutely wasn't that posh, fortunately you can fit an aftermarket unit for under £30. Mine was a 2 wire connection and plugs into a standard plug socket

Awesome do you have a link to it?

Kiran

Steveotwo said:

Kiran said:

Steveotwo said:

Kiran said:

I'm pretty sure mine is similar power usage. It's money well spent in my opinion anyway as the kids can open the garage door using Alexa and there's no danger of them dropping an up and over on their heads or something

Not sure mine is that posh

Mine absolutely wasn't that posh, fortunately you can fit an aftermarket unit for under £30. Mine was a 2 wire connection and plugs into a standard plug socket

Awesome do you have a link to it?

This is the one that I used, lots of others available but this was very easy to install and has worked well for the last 3 years

Meross Smart Garage Door Opener, Voice/Remote Control, Auto Close, with Timer, Add-On to Existing Garage Opener, Compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, SmartThings, 2.4GHz WiFi Only: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools

victor2

Bit of an aside, but the Tapo P110 is currently £9.99 on Amazon. Don't be tempted by the P100 as it doesn't report energy use.

FreeBear

Alena11 said:

If you’re in Laguna Niguel

Instead of developing artificial intelligence, how about getting rid of natural stupidity.

Getting the schools in USA to teach a bit about geography would be a start.

moneysaver1978

victor2 said:

Bit of an aside, but the Tapo P110 is currently £9.99 on Amazon. Don't be tempted by the P100 as it doesn't report energy use.

We have had both versions for several years now (along with Kasa and Flex) - the energy monitoring is connected to a non-smart TV and was helpful to roughly determine how much we watched TV!