whats your average elctric burn?

[Nightmare]

well following the slight shock of bothering to check my electric bill and finding out it was 200 squid a month i bought one of those owl monitors......and have learnt some things. arguably things i should already have known
1. electric underfloor heating is a great plan for bathrooms...small area. Not so great for big areas. We have it running throughout our kitchen/conservatory affair...a mere 3.77KW constantly!
2. halogen lights use a lot of power. i mean jees
3. the NTL box on standby draws as much power as a tele, DVD player, video player, 360, PS2 and wii all on standby and added together.

So having fiddled around with things, the monitor is typically showing between .4 and 1.5kw. just before going to bed last night we were on .4 So what draws 400 watts?
We have: a fridge/freezer; an oven,m/wave and bedside table which all have digi clocks, snake heat mat x 2 (though they're on thermostats so shouldnt be on much at night)...er? oh guess the wireless router is on all the time too.

still seems a bit high?

[tr7v8]

400Watts is 1.75Amps, the stuff you've listed would quite easily manage that. Assuming it is constant draw then it is around 3500 kW/Hr or 175quid per year at 5 pence per unit.

[Nightmare]

tr7v8 said:

400Watts is 1.75Amps, the stuff you've listed would quite easily manage that. Assuming it is constant draw then it is around 3500 kW/Hr or 175quid per year at 5 pence per unit.

thank you sir

[jaybkay]

5 pence a unit! I think you'll find it's rather more than that.

Electric underfloor heating is a killer, quite a number of houses in NZ have it, very few people actually use it even though electricity is relatively cheap here (can be as low as 4p a unit at night).

It's summer (nearly) in NZ - and I'm down to 14kW hours a day - all electric house, no other energy inputs, with 3 to 4 adults.

Solar and a hot water heat pump help a lot - and all lights have been changed for energy efficient ones.

[Pickled Piper]

Just bought one of those energy monitor things. Dishwasher on a high temp wash is an absolute killer. Washing machine and tumble dryer not as bad as I thought. Outside lights (energy saving bulbs) negligible. Audio visual stuff on standby surprisingly high. I had changed a lot of Halogen bulbs already for energy saving so not a big problem.

We are seeing between 300 to 500 watts when all the appliances are off. I assume this is down to two fridge freezers, clocks on cooker etc and central heating pump.

pp

[tr7v8]

jaybkay said:

5 pence a unit! I think you'll find it's rather more than that.

Just an example figure, I do this for corporates & we see electrical prices all over the place e.g. in the UK from 4p per kWh to 12p per kWh. So difficult to come up with definitive figures.