RE: Re: New Current Cost Unit on sale...

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

I cant get my base load below 1400w :(

Max draw I've seen is 9500w !!

We're much better with the lighting now, but it's the 3 x PC's running
24x7,
the mac mini, popcorn hour, and god knows what else that isnt helping...


Dean.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Neil Ball
Sent: 16 February 2009 19:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: New Current Cost Unit on sale...

My base load is about 700W just now although I have dropped my daily
consumption from 65kWh to low 40s. In my case that has been due to more
careful control of my heating which is all-electric via a ground source
heat
pump. Have still to find any significant single loads that make up my base
load, seems to be lots of little devices all with their own wall-wart
transformers that are on 24/7 or infrastructure items which cannot easily
be
switched off - lighting controls, heating controls, AV distribution etc. I
guess I need to either start doing the manual switch-off when not using the
transformers or spend some time (and money) looking for some additional
automation that could do this without (hopefully) using just as much energy
as I then save :-)



Neil B.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jon Whiten
Sent: 16 February 2009 17:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: New Current Cost Unit on sale...



600W

I guess not too bad then. We have a hot tub (only runs during the day in an
Econ mode) that pulls in excess of 3.5KW so need to kind of
"offset" that
somewhat!

I agree regarding the behavior modifier - I used to keep a PC on "just
in
case" that I could walk up to and use - not anymore.

We also had a Win XP MCE m/c that was effectively on 24/7 as the auto
hibernate did not work too well - we swapped that in Oct/Nov for SkyHD.
Much more reliable but I think the user interface is pants compared to MCE
(which itself is not as good as TiVO was).

;oj

On 16/02/2009, kw1816 <kw1816@yahoo. <mailto:kw1816%40yahoo.co.uk>
co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Just out of interest, what is your base loading Jon ?
>
> I know it was discussed here a while ago and the values varied from
> the jaw droppingly low to the eye watering high.
>
> Mine sits around 1KW but I'm working on it. Having a constant reminder
> of how much energy is being used is certainly a behaviour modifier -
> I'm getting quite used to walking around the house in the dark as the
> wife's switched off each and every light :-)
>
> Kevin
> .
>
>
>

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