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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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We have an energy monitor sitting on the desk in the study. It measures in real time the electrical energy the house is using at any given time.
I was sitting there the other day and I noticed it was registering 420 Watts...
So I turned off the desk lamp, and it went down... then I turned off the alarm clock, the TV, freesat box, Computer... and it went down again.
Then I turned off the cooker and microwave (digital displays) and it dropped even further... but not to zero. I then hunted around for other stuff that was on... In the garage my bike was on an optimate, so I turned that off... It was still not on zero, so I turned the central heating boiler off completely... it went down further... but again not to zero...
I hunted around, room by room, and noticed the electric piano switched on, with a standby light... off that went. still showing 40 watts...
Then I thought you prat, the monitor itself has a transformer! But I thought that's still a lot of watts for that transformer.. So I fired up the portable generator (yes I do have too much time on my hands!) and plugged the monitor into that. The monitor dropped to 30 watts...
If I turned the electricity off completely (with the monitor still powered by the generator) the display drops to zero...
This got me intrigued... so I took the monitor to my brothers house, switched everything off apart from the monitor itself, and the display showed 9 to 12 watts, which is the consumption I would have expected... so its not the monitor.
So where is my 30 watts going!
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Pixel Pusher
4,675 posts
28 months
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Fridge freezer?
Do you have a mains wired signal booster for the TV?
Just trying to think of anything you might have missed.
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voicey
1,132 posts
56 months
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Fridge? Fire Alarm?
If you really want to know you can figure out which circuit the draw is on by flicking each circuit off one by one at the consumer unit - should give you a direction to go hunting in.
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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Nope... the fridge is off, so is the house alarm...
I am really struggling to see what it is!
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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voicey said: Fridge? Fire Alarm?
If you really want to know you can figure out which circuit the draw is on by flicking each circuit off one by one at the consumer unit - should give you a direction to go hunting in. yep thanks, I should have mentioned that, Its on the socket circuit...
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BliarOut
53,472 posts
108 months
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Trip your RCDs one at a time to narrow it down?
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NiceCupOfTea
21,943 posts
120 months
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As somebody said - flick off each RCCB one by one to narrow it down a bit!
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944fan
1,911 posts
54 months
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Ask the hash growers next door to switch their kit off and see if your figures go down.
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fourfoldroot
118 posts
24 months
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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944fan said: Ask the hash growers next door to switch their kit off and see if your figures go down. Always wondered what that smell was 
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JungleJim
1,223 posts
81 months
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does the monitor plug in?
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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fourfoldroot said: Outside lamp with PIR ?? Good suggestion, but I pulled the fuses on the spurs so its not them... Its not the Arial booster either, took the plug out on that went we went freesat... Its really bugging me!
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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JungleJim said: does the monitor plug in? yep, re read the first post about the generator 
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Jonnas
744 posts
32 months
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buzzer said: Its really bugging me! It's bugging me now, come on........!
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fourfoldroot
118 posts
24 months
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rsv gone!
10,623 posts
110 months
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buzzer said: So where is my 30 watts going! Maybe you've got a leak.
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cjs
4,307 posts
120 months
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Telephones or other stuff on charge? Tv distribution amp? Modem? Water softener? Washing machine & dishwasher, switch off at the wall they use power in 'standby'.
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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rsv gone! said: buzzer said: So where is my 30 watts going! Maybe you've got a leak. I am begining to think this... but how, where...?
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buzzer
Original Poster
1,677 posts
109 months
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cjs said: Telephones or other stuff on charge? Tv distribution amp? Modem? Water softener? Washing machine & dishwasher, switch off at the wall they use power in 'standby'. nope, all off. had to empty the cupboard to get to the dishwasher switch... My wife is saying this is becoming an obsession....
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mybrainhurts
71,604 posts
124 months
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rsv gone! said: buzzer said: So where is my 30 watts going! Maybe you've got a leak. That's what I thought. Can you smell anything?
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