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

[Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just for comparison, our 3 bed semi in Bath, Somerset has a base load
of 50w-100w (1 Viglen MPC, Current Cost and fridge kicking in every so
often make it sit at 50w but peak at 100w). Sat in front of the 42" TV
with sky box and 1 or two lights on makes it 400w-500w and peak is
about 3kw when the kettle, washing machine and dishwasher are on at
the same time.

See:-
http://linuxuk.org/current_cost

Regards,
Jamie.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dean Barrett <dean@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> _____
>
> 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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