Prepaid Power Tips?

So I manually switched off the geyser at 7am and back on at 11pm that evening. In other words in a 24hr period it only ran 8hrs.

Friday with my helper went from 19 to 16, and Saturday with me only, it went from 12 to 9.

So around 3kWh for the geyser.

9 still seems kinda high when looking at everyone else's figures though

I read that even 8hrs per day is too much as a geyser only drops 10 degrees in 24hrs - so I guess with a switch can actually put it on 2am to 6am (4hrs) and save more.
 
Dolby said:
So I manually switched off the geyser at 7am and back on at 11pm that evening. In other words in a 24hr period it only ran 8hrs.

Friday with my helper went from 19 to 16, and Saturday with me only, it went from 12 to 9.

So around 3kWh for the geyser.

9 still seems kinda high when looking at everyone else's figures though

I read that even 8hrs per day is too much as a geyser only drops 10 degrees in 24hrs - so I guess with a switch can actually put it on 2am to 6am (4hrs) and save more.
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You can get by on 2hours of geyser on per 24 hours. I do 90mins.
 
Dolby said:
Awesome thanks!

Do you do very early morning for 90 minutes?
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Yeah I have a timer, that switches it on at 5am, and because I installed a geyser blanket it's enough for shower in the morning. And there's enough hot if I shower later as well.
 
So I think I've worked out my 9kWh per day :

My fridge/freezer, my chest freezer, my TV/PS4 etc, kettle and microwave are 5kWh together.

The balance of 4kWh is majority the geyser (8hrs) , lights and arb small things things. I'd probably shave another 1kWh off with a timer - but I doubt I could get much below 8kWh in a day.
 
Dolby said:
So I think I've worked out my 9kWh per day :

My fridge/freezer, my chest freezer, my TV/PS4 etc, kettle and microwave are 5kWh together.

The balance of 4kWh is majority the geyser (8hrs) , lights and arb small things things. I'd probably shave another 1kWh off with a timer - but I doubt I could get much below 8kWh in a day.
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Yup our big double door fridge uses 1.8 units a day, when I had an old 210l chest freezer and a 9 year old fridge with broken seals was using 4 units a day.
 
Heading into winter this is the worst time to determine savings when scheduling your geyser time.

You need a period of constant weather. Also you will be using your appliances differently.

Back onto the prepaid purchase, check your average usage in units over the last year and then buy that much each month. If it's still in cheaper Tier 1 then add a few extra units to rollover.

We switched to prepaid last year and buy 700 units each month, even in the months where we still have 700 on the meter at beginning of the month. It works out great as we use the energy saving months to help us in those energy hungry ones.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Heading into winter this is the worst time to determine savings when scheduling your geyser time.

You need a period of constant weather. Also you will be using your appliances differently.

Back onto the prepaid purchase, check your average usage in units over the last year and then buy that much each month. If it's still in cheaper Tier 1 then add a few extra units to rollover.

We switched to prepaid last year and buy 700 units each month, even in the months where we still have 700 on the meter at beginning of the month. It works out great as we use the energy saving months to help us in those energy hungry ones.
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This is what I do but I normally go for 500 units. Currently sitting on 740 units after only just putting the last 200 units on now.
 
So I purchased another R500.00 (1 June 2019) and again got 349kwh - so maybe the increase is only from next month.

Anyway - now that I've settled , it seems my average daily is a touch over 11kWh - if I go back a year to when I didn't really check power use, it seems I used around 14kWh ... so 20% less than previously and around R130.00pm saving. If I add in the network/service charge saving, it's R700pm saving in the end - so chuffed!
 
I got one of these too :

http://www.theowl.com/index.php/energy-monitors/remote-monitoring/intuition-e/

My DB board is pretty cramped, so I'm going to get an electrician to install that clamp as he may need to move a cable or two. But I've got the actual network part of up and running, so can check everything remotely.

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Dolby said:
So I purchased another R500.00 (1 June 2019) and again got 349kwh - so maybe the increase is only from next month.

Anyway - now that I've settled , it seems my average daily is a touch over 11kWh - if I go back a year to when I didn't really check power use, it seems I used around 14kWh ... so 20% less than previously and around R130.00pm saving. If I add in the network/service charge saving, it's R700pm saving in the end - so chuffed!
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Yeah that R500 saving is a big one.
 
Dolby said:
So I purchased another R500.00 (1 June 2019) and again got 349kwh - so maybe the increase is only from next month.

Anyway - now that I've settled , it seems my average daily is a touch over 11kWh - if I go back a year to when I didn't really check power use, it seems I used around 14kWh ... so 20% less than previously and around R130.00pm saving. If I add in the network/service charge saving, it's R700pm saving in the end - so chuffed!
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You with COJ iirc increase is only from 01 July.
 
Wow I've definitely been hit ... I think also because I've bought more units this month, being winter ... 35%+ increase over my 30 June purchase

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I've also taken a big hit this month. R1 000.00 used to last from the 1st through to the 25th-ish. It was done on the 16th this month. Also city power.
 
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