Idle electricity usage.

[SauRoNZA]

If the wife turns on that God dammed tumble dryer all bets are off.

Recently put one of those expanding washing lines in the braai area that cooks itself during the day even in winter.

Wish I did it the first month we moved in.

Only once needed the tumble dryer and that was for my bike gear over night.

 

[itareanlnotani]

Problem with those is the sun bakes lines into your clothes if you don't take it down within an hour or two.
I have a bunch of t-shirts where thats happened.

 

[gfmalan]

What monitor is that? And where does it get the readings from?

As Dolby said - Efergy.

I started with the Hub kit, that take the reading with a clamp, send it to the hub, that passes it on to a database every few seconds (you can set that). So you have access to the history from website or App on phone/tablet.
Then I added more senders, to monitor different stuff, and it was the cheapest to buy damaged boxes from Ellies, so I ended up with this little screens as well, I only kept 1 and connected it to the main clamp, just for info, but using the App mainly.

https://www.ellies.co.za/page/1/?s=efergy&post_type=product

 

[maumau]

Problem with those is the sun bakes lines into your clothes if you don't take it down within an hour or two.
I have a bunch of t-shirts where thats happened.

Best not to dry in full sun.

 

[alqassam]

FML hit a 100 kWh over the past 24 hrs

 

[Swa]

 

[Lupus]

FML hit a 100 kWh over the past 24 hrs

Sounds like you're running a small business.

 

[isie]

FML hit a 100 kWh over the past 24 hrs

Jesus are you mining Bitcoin

 

[alqassam]

Derp freezer over the past 14 hrs

 

[Lupus]

Derp freezer over the past 14 hrs
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That will be a little over unit a day?

 

[alqassam]

That will be a unit a day?

Seems like it. So I don't thing that's the issue.

Going to check my other 2 fridges tomorrow

 

[Lupus]

If you trip your mains and go look at the meter does it still move? Cause even a really busted fridge won't really go over maybe 20

 

[isie]

If you trip your mains and go look at the meter does it still move? Cause even a really busted fridge won't really go over maybe 20

^This
possible short between meter and DB board.
best way to describe it is Sort of like a water leak but with electricity

 

[Gaz{M}]

I go from 24kwh/day to 60kwh/day when two grannies stayed over for the weekend. They like their showers hotter than the lava of mount doom and the heater on 24/7.

 

[alqassam]

My geyser since 11amnhas used 8.7kwh so far

 

[Lupus]

My geyser since 11amnhas used 8.7kwh so far

That's pretty high. Though it depends on usage has there been a lot of bathing?

 

[alqassam]

That's pretty high. Though it depends on usage has there been a lot of bathing?

1 shower and 1 bath.

 

[Dolby]

That's pretty high. Though it depends on usage has there been a lot of bathing?

I'm not sure that is really high though?

But the worrying this is that is generally the biggest electricity consumer in the house, and the plus a deep freeze accounts for only 10% of his use!

 

[alqassam]

I'm not sure that is really high though?

But the worrying this is that is generally the biggest electricity consumer in the house, and the plus a deep freeze accounts for only 10% of his use!

It's 9kwh average over 9 hrs.

It seems that over the 2 fridges and 1 deep freeze it's 200w per hour.

 

[chrisc]

Solar water heater reduced electricity consumption by 26%
Heat pump reduced it by a further 12%
PV panels took it down by another 12%

Using 12kw to 16kwh a day

Gas heating, wood burning stove, double glazing, very thick roof insulation. Every little bit helps