Talk to me about... smart meters - and energy consumption in general.

BobClay

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My smart meter gets up in the heart of the night and moves things around. I suspect it does it in the daytime too if I'm not looking. :eek:
 
Gramaisc

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Further data on my (admittedly non-electric) energy usage has just become available. The gas cylinder that supplies the house cooker ran out at the weekend. It was an 11.34kg cylinder (actually, 25lbs, to keep Rees-Mogg happy) and had run the cooker for 266 days. Based on the cost of the exchange refill, it equates to almost exactly €1 per week or 15c a day.

The cylinder supplying the Shed cooker still feels 'full', despite having been in service for over two years now, but it does get rather less usage, of course.
 
Jonah

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Come on, this one’s only been asleep for less than 6 months. 😁



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Gramaisc

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There has been talk recently in the outside world about the efficiency or otherwise of air fryers. I hazarded a guess that my (allegedly) 1,400W one would consume around a quarter of a kWh for each cycle of use.

In the interests of veracity, I have just had chicken and chips with it powered via the energy monitor. This showed that it ran at 1,420W whilst heating and just 24W with only the fan running. The warm-up to the initial thermostat operation took 0.08kWh, but the total for the full cycle was 0.24kWh - not a bad guess.
 
Gramaisc

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The house cooker gas cylinder, 11kg of butane, ran out the other day, after 275 days of occupancy.

€32 for the refill this time, so about 12c per day or 85c per week.

It may be slightly unloaded by one or two air fryer runs per week, I suppose, compared to cylinders in previous years.

Acceptable - the Shed cylinder is still chugging along.
 
Gramaisc

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Gramaisc said:
There has been talk recently in the outside world about the efficiency or otherwise of air fryers. I hazarded a guess that my (allegedly) 1,400W one would consume around a quarter of a kWh for each cycle of use.

In the interests of veracity, I have just had chicken and chips with it powered via the energy monitor. This showed that it ran at 1,420W whilst heating and just 24W with only the fan running. The warm-up to the initial thermostat operation took 0.08kWh, but the total for the full cycle was 0.24kWh - not a bad guess.
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Further consumption data.

I've just run the washing machine through the cycle that I almost always use and it consumed 0.96kWh. That's not too bad.

However, what is bad is that I found that, even when 'off', it consumes 6 or 7W if it is left connected to the mains - madness! From here on it will be 'off' at the wall, when not in use.

6 to 7W is over a kWh per week - for nothing, not even a 'standby' light to brighten the place up. It is stone cold, but the source of the energy output may be deep inside and not heating up a small enough area to be felt.

That's 3% of my fairly steady 30-33kWh per week.


I've now plugged the kitchen electric kettle in via the meter, for a full week's use measurement. After that, I'll do the fridge for a week. And I'll do the dishwasher one day.
 
tek-monkey

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Gramaisc said:
Further consumption data.

I've just run the washing machine through the cycle that I almost always use and it consumed 0.96kWh. That's not too bad.

However, what is bad is that I found that, even when 'off', it consumes 6 or 7W if it is left connected to the mains - madness! From here on it will be 'off' at the wall, when not in use.

6 to 7W is over a kWh per week - for nothing, not even a 'standby' light to brighten the place up. It is stone cold, but the source of the energy output may be deep inside and not heating up a small enough area to be felt.

That's 3% of my fairly steady 30-33kWh per week.


I've now plugged the kitchen electric kettle in via the meter, for a full week's use measurement. After that, I'll do the fridge for a week. And I'll do the dishwasher one day.
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My fridge is the killer, big american thing, often hits 2kWh in a day.
 
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