What's your base load?

Base load of your house

  • 0-50 W

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • 50-100 W

    Votes: 8 9.6%

  • 100-150 W

    Votes: 4 4.8%

  • 150-250 W

    Votes: 19 22.9%

  • 250-500 W

    Votes: 25 30.1%

  • 500 W+

    Votes: 26 31.3%
  • Total voters
    83
Flanders said:
Same at night. Daytime about 1500W since I run pool pump during PV hours from 9am til 4pm.
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I didn't include our pool pump during day time but we have two fridge/freezers, chest freezer, CCTv, HP G3 800 running HA on Proxmox, Unifi UCG, 3 Unifi AP's, etc. running constantly.
 
During the day baseload is 1200, can have spikes up to 5000. At night it's around 300 too 450. New inverter reports its load and it is about 75w more than my old one. Telling you its that spinning rgb lights
 
Lupus said:
During the day baseload is 1200, can have spikes up to 5000. At night it's around 300 too 450. New inverter reports its load and it is about 75w more than my old one. Telling you its that spinning rgb lights
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That's handy. Sunsynk doesn't as far as I'm aware and has caused me some headaches for a side project I'm working on. ie. kWh grid load reported from sunsynk does not match meter. Losses here include inverter and thermal etc. as far as I can tell. When the weather is hot this factor increases so is not constant either.
 
Flanders said:
That's handy. Sunsynk doesn't as far as I'm aware and has caused me some headaches for a side project I'm working on. ie. kWh grid load reported from sunsynk does not match meter. Losses here include inverter and thermal etc. as far as I can tell. When the weather is hot this factor increases so is not constant either.
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Yeah the Axpert doesn't either, so had to manually add it in. It does help to know the load
 
Lupus said:
Yeah the Axpert doesn't either, so had to manually add it in. It does help to know the load
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Also, when the inverter is working hard, er, ...inverting during the daytime, it uses more power vs. more or less idle at night time when/if not touching battery so that isn't constant either.
 
Flanders said:
Also, when the inverter is working hard, er, ...inverting during the daytime, it uses more power vs. more or less idle at night time when/if not touching battery so that isn't constant either.
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Yeah seen that as well, the base load is higher during the day when nothing is running as well.
 
Flanders said:
Also, when the inverter is working hard, er, ...inverting during the daytime, it uses more power vs. more or less idle at night time when/if not touching battery so that isn't constant either.
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Why would that matter? Its not using any battery capacity.
 
wingnut771 said:
Why would that matter? Its not using any battery capacity.
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I'm guessing when putting to battery or any draw during the day? Unless it's purely because of ambient temp during the day that the fans crank like they do. I just assumed the unit was consuming more power during this time.
 
wingnut771 said:
Mine are on daylight switches. Think the expense of replacing light fittings will take years to offset energy costs and I also prefer to look out the window and see.
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Temu outdoor solar lights. I got those ones that you put along a walkway and the ones that look like a camera. In total I have about 12 of them outside. Cost less than 600 rand. No cabling needed.

I didn’t trust the IP rating so sealed any potential water entry points with silicone. They have been running fine for the last 1.5 years now. Not even one failure and when I want them to stay on, I just grab my remote and press a button to set it like that.

Garages is the only place I changed the fitting and added the motion sensor holder that takes any bulb.

The other ezisting fittings, I bought 20 light bulbs for 300 rand from guess where, Temu. They also have run the same 1.5 years. They have the motion sensing in built inside so no changing of any fitting.
 
between 200-350 - if the fridge / freezer is running its at about 350
 
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