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RE: Re: Base-line power consumption



About 450w here and I thought that was bad!



A few weeks ago I went round and unplugged things one by one (or in groups)
and assessed the power consumption, then turned off each fuse at the board
as well and came up with the following list.



It's amazing how it adds up. I was most shocked by the 50w that the
Microwave draws with just the clock running - that's over 1kWh per day!
Needless to say that is now unplugged when not in use.  Most other stuff
now




Computer (to standby)

75


Colour Laser

38


B&W Laser

10


Monitor (standby)

0


Fridge (Standby)

7


PC (standby) etc on 4 way with phones, USB hubs, speakers, laptop supply)
etc

107


Router + wifi

12


Living Room TV, cable, PVR, hifi etc (all standby)

45


NAS

16


Coffee Machine

0


Bathroom circuits

10


Boiler/Washing Machine

22


Bose Woofer

1


Bose Conservatory

1


Amp (Kitchen)

0


Kitchen Appliancess (ex MW)

2


Microwave

51


Oven

2


Toaster

1


Slim Kitchen

0


Upstairs Ring

13


Downstairs light cct

2


Kitchen Ring

0


Bell+Alarm+Smoke

16


Upstairs Lights

3


Conservatory TV+router

31





When the heating's on and lights are on it builds up to about 1kW



Cheers



Pete

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
rb_ziggy
Sent: 29 November 2008 10:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Base-line power consumption



Gulp 1.2kw.

Been looking at how to reduce without loosing functionality.

Fridge freezer
Comfort alarm
Ha server inc house audio
Two gigabit switches
Wireless access point
Cable router
Various sensors (one wire,caller id)
12 channel power amp for audio (ahem)
Sky hd
Dect phones
And other bits on standby which really don't register.

But we have knocked off about 400w already. Not particularly happy about
this though:-(


--- In ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com, "Jon
Wilkins" <jonpdwilkins@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry folks... about 150-200w. And I consider that to be too much...
>
> Other than the "normal" appliances (fridge etc) the only HA
kit left
running
> is the idratek network and the min-itx running Cortex (which pulls
<30w
> though I'm trying to reduce that to <20w).
>
> 2008/11/28 Rowdy (UKHA) <ukha@...>
>
> > Ours is about 500w, so far I'm looking good :-)
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
<ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> > ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
<ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> > Jim
> > Sent: 28 November 2008 19:34
> > To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
<ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Base-line power consumption
> >
> > A question for those who have power monitoring on their home.
> >
> > Taken when your house is un-occupied (i.e. all normal appliances
off,
just
> > 24/7 fridge, computers etc. powered up), what is your "base
line" power
> > consumption?
> >
> > Ours is in the region of 800W, just want to compare this with
what
others
> > would expect?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





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