What's your base load?

[wingnut771]

I think a bunch of 500 W+ votes have misunderstood the assignment. Looking for minimum consumption, not average. So what your house consumes 24/7, through the night, and even if you're not at home. Fridges are in, automatic lighting, CCTV, servers etc. are all in, but not aircons, and arguably not geysers or pool pumps. Definitely not ovens.

Our base load is 60-70 W. About half of that is the fridge (a bit higher in summer when the duty cycle is longer). Of the remaining 30 W or so, about two thirds is the Raspberry Pi, router, ONT, camera, and mini UPS. The last 10 W must be TV & PC standby, and that little red neon light on the multiplug.

 

[Tomtomtom]

But there’s an enterprise grade network and NAS on 24/7 along with two mini PC clients on permanently.

I guess the network equipment won't be efficient. I remember my old PC used to draw 100 W idling with another 100 W for the screens. Now the whole setup is 120 W so the PC is down by 80%.

 

[Tomtomtom]

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Impossible to read that scale but what is that, 640 W at 7am? And that's about your lowest overnight?

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Base load here is at least 10cc

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Currently my base load is around 350W, renovating one side of the house so some stuff is unplugged like a fridge.

 

[wingnut771]

Impossible to read that scale but what is that, 640 W at 7am? And that's about your lowest overnight?

Doing about 30kWh per day so 30 divide 24 hours = 1.25kW.

 

[Tomtomtom]

Doing about 30kWh per day so 30 divide 24 hours = 1.25kW.

Yes but that's with you in the house. So if you were to go away for a couple of days, what would it be. Anything of your ~600 W overnight load that you would turn off?

 

[wingnut771]

Yes but that's with you in the house. So if you were to go away for a couple of days, what would it be. Anything of your ~600 W overnight load that you would turn off?

I don't go anywhere therefore this is my base load. I highly doubt that I have to lower my living standards to 19th century Amish levels to satisfy this poll. I answered 250W-500W.

 

[1am7h30n3]

Looks like about 113W. Biggest portion is inverter self consumption at somewhere around 50W. The rest is fridge, router, lights, some small appliance standby power waste.

 

[Greglsh]

Base load during the day is +-850w to 950w, work from home so we have a network cabinet (+-300w), with 24 port switch, router, ad blocking Raspberry pi, Synology NAS and cooling fan, then 2 computers a CCTV system, 1 double door fridge, 1 single door fridge and a chest freezer, then a 46 inch TV on showing the CCTV cameras, UV water sterilization light which uses 47w 24/7 and then all the home devices on standby. At night this drops to about 500w to 600w.

 

[Tomtomtom]

work from home so we have a network cabinet (+-300w), with 24 port switch...

When you say "we" do you mean your whole team works at your house?

 

[Greglsh]

Wife and I, work for same IT company. Every room has a network point or 2, 3 Unifi ceiling access points, Unifi router, fans controlled by a temperature monitor so fans do not run all the time, plus a Hikvision NVR with POE ports.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Wife and I, work for same IT company. Every room has a network point or 2, 3 Unifi ceiling access points, Unifi router, fans controlled by a temperature monitor so fans do not run all the time, plus a Hikvision NVR with POE ports.

Man that’s a lot of WiFi is it really necessary in each room? Signal that bad

 

[Lupus]

Man that’s a lot of WiFi is it really necessary in each room? Signal that bad

Wifi needs to span every corner

 

[Rickster]

 

[wingnut771]

Wifi needs to span every corner

I do that with 3 old ISP routers connected to each other with LAN, covers the whole property, still have another 3 in the storage cupboard incase anything breaks.

 

[Lupus]

I do that with 3 old ISP routers connected to each other with LAN, covers the whole property, still have another 3 in the storage cupboard incase anything breaks.

I've got the same with mesh routers. 4 in total

 

[wingnut771]

I've got the same with mesh routers. 4 in total

Mine are just the cheap free router you get when you sign up to an ISP. I just named them all the same using the same channel, always have wifi even by the pool or by the gate or upstairs or wherever.

 

[Lupus]

Mine are just the cheap free router you get when you sign up to an ISP. I just named them all the same using the same channel, always have wifi even by the pool or by the gate or upstairs or wherever.

I had that, but some devices were having shyetdh5d fits.
So just got the same brand and meshed

 

[Greglsh]

So it's 3 units to cover the property 2 in the house and 1 in the granny flat . All media players or TV's are cabled into the network, Xbox is cabled, as well. Also have a Mikrotik in the garage and a Google smart speaker in the garage to play music so need Wi-Fi in there as well.