What's your base load?

Base load of your house

  • 0-50 W

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • 50-100 W

    Votes: 8 9.2%

  • 100-150 W

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • 150-250 W

    Votes: 19 21.8%

  • 250-500 W

    Votes: 27 31.0%

  • 500 W+

    Votes: 27 31.0%
  • Total voters
    87
denmendez65 said:
No idea. But one of the teens had left a fan plugged into the kitchen plug when we left the house for the 5 days.

It rained the same evening and tripped the earth leakage. The kitchen stayed without power till we came back. Things in the freezer compartment had defrosted but still quite cold.

I suspect the insulation is very good on the new fridges. It took almost 48 hours of continuous running for the fridge to switch off via thermostat after that though.
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A reasonably full freezer can last up to 48 hours unplugged if there is little opening and closing. A decent fridge can be up to 20 hours.
 
Lupus said:
A reasonably full freezer can last up to 48 hours unplugged if there is little opening and closing. A decent fridge can be up to 20 hours.
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It depends on how full it is as the mass acts like a battery.
 
marhsava said:
Is 1.5 - 2kw normal ? , I have a gas geyser so it can't be that
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How is this being measured?

It's definitely not normal to have that high of a load constantly in a regular residential house. It's definitely possible if you have lots of devices always on, possibly lots of downlights (the old halogen ones are really power hungry).
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
How is this being measured?

It's definitely not normal to have that high of a load constantly in a regular residential house. It's definitely possible if you have lots of devices always on, possibly lots of downlights (the old halogen ones are really power hungry).
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Lights are not on during the day though. Also curious about how this is measured.
 
marhsava said:
Is 1.5 - 2kw normal ? , I have a gas geyser so it can't be that
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Switch off everything in the house and check. I use the prepaid meter to measure, I type i001 and it displays the current usage realtime.
Neighbours stealing? Earth leakage?a huge three phase refrigerator? There can be many reasons
 
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