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  • AnotherJoe
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    Presumably though it won’t have been on continuously, just enough to maintain the temperature. Maybe half the time ?
  • Farway
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    AnotherJoe wrote: »
    Presumably though it won’t have been on continuously, just enough to maintain the temperature. Maybe half the time ?

    OP states no thermostat, so on 24/7 x 365
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  • AnotherJoe
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    Farway wrote: »
    OP states no thermostat, so on 24/7 x 365

    OUCH. Missed that.
  • zeupater
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    Helen28 wrote: »
    I have just discovered that a 60 watt pipe heater with no thermostat has been left switched on in my attic for over a year.

    It was under the cold water tank.

    I'm with Bulb paying 0.1351p per kWh so has it been costing me £59.19 a year as I have calculated or just £5.91 as my ex says?
    Hi

    Simple rule of thumb on energy saving & energy efficiency is that 1W used constantly for 1 year cost around £1 !!

    Makes it quite simple really ... that 5W slightly warm DC transformer that's plugged into the wall is costing ~£5/year and the 3W one ~£3/year ... :)

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  • Helen28
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    Simple rule of thumb on energy saving & energy efficiency is that 1W used constantly for 1 year cost around £1 !!

    I know that, that is what I told my ex and he said I was wrong.

    I just needed someone else to point out to my disbelieving ex that he was wrong and I was right.
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