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

[Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie,

What was the 6KW spike @~18:30? </nosy>


2009/2/17 Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxx>

>   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<dean%40rolec.net>>
> 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 <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> > Neil Ball
> > Sent: 16 February 2009 19:41
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > 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 <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> > Jon Whiten
> > Sent: 16 February 2009 17:41
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > 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<kw1816%2540yahoo.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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> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
>
>



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