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Nnewby_investor reacted to wingnut771's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with
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They don’t run all day, they switch off when they get to their set temp. If they did, they would bankrupt you. -
Nnewby_investor reacted to PsyWulf's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Sad.
So are they going to ripple you when it's your 4hours of electricity in a day then while you get loadshed the rest of the time you...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to PsyWulf's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Sad.
I'd say 2-3kW so it's worse
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Rouxenator's post in the thread Intel Compute Stick STK2M3W64CC | Core M3-6Y30 | 4GB RAM | 64GB eMMC - Sale with Like.
I replaced it with something that uses half the power. This runs on a Gizzu backup battery for WiFi/Fibre equipment so the less power it...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa.I don't have a problem with ripple controllers as such, because if you can smooth out evening peaks then that makes a difference. But...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Swa's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
And take cold showers. No, Eskom's problem has nothing to do with peak generation but general availability so switching it on and off...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Bliksis's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
I leave mine on all day. I have not noted any savings by keeping it off during the day, etc. So I'm not going to bother with that...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to CB40's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
Yup,was forced to install a ripple relay or else I would be charged about an extra R395.00 per month no matter how much electricity I...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to xtm's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Haha.
He don't know how ovens and electric stoves works.
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Nnewby_investor reacted to The Trutherizer's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
Have spent around R120k on energy savings and home generation measures. On top of the R15k or so in device damage I've had to dock up...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to RonSwanson's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
-- Kgosientso "Genius" Ramokgopa
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Magnum's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
This is an ARK running at 75 degrees. 3 minutes 50 seconds to keep temps. 40 minute intervals.
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Nnewby_investor reacted to DrJohnZoidberg's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
I think more of the problem is just poorly insulated geysers. I often just see them just hanging outside with zero consideration for...
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Nnewby_investor reacted to Magnum's post in the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa with Like.
If your geyser is on 24/7/365 you are in serious hot water... It should self regulate according to the heat lost and only switch on for...
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Nnewby_investor replied to the thread Switching off South Africa's geysers could save up to four stages of load-shedding — Ramokgopa.Four stages of load-shedding, i.e. 4000 MW. Assuming a normal geyser of 4 kW, basically he's asking to turn off 1M geysers. Is my maths...