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    My last horrendous Enmax bill has me scratching my head. I'm thinking there must be something wrong with my home's electrical use.

    My last billing cycle was 34 days, going over Christmas and New Years, and I used a whopping 2941 kWh's. 86.5/day.

    For the previous cycle, it was 28 days at a total of 535 kWh's or 19.1/day. But over the last year I seem to average around 1300 kWh's per month. That seems awfully high.

    So what is everyone else using?
    My stats: 3600 sq ft of living space.
    two fridges, one freezer, one stove, one hot tub (240v), three TV's, two computers, other than that, just normal lighting. All incandescent bulbs, mind you. (I'll have to change that)
    Always someone home, so always something on.
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    We float right around 750kWh/month throughout the year. This christmas was a bit more because I was heating the garage electrically while working on my bike.. That just chews through the power like crazy.

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    Last edited by Cos; 12-31-2016 at 06:16 PM.
    Originally posted by adam c

    Line goes up, line goes down, line does squiggly things and fucks Alberta
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    890sqft 2bdrm condo.
    204kWh last cycle, 6kWh/d.

    All lights are CFLs. I do most of my cooking on the BBQ, even in winter.

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    Are you using older Plasma TVs?

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    From 400-500kWh, 2100sqft single house, two people and two beasts.

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    -1030 Sq.ft bungelow (w/basement) heated to 23*C
    -800 Sq.ft Garage heated to 8*C
    -iguana cage, frog terrarium, fish tanks, all heated 24/7

    Summer = 500-700 kWh
    Winter = 1000-1200 kWh

    edit: I mention the heat settings, because both furnaces are old, shitty ones with very inefficient fans.
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    1100 sq. ft bungalow, mix of CCFL and incandecent lights. I use the HT system for everything TV related, running an old LCD as well.

    We average between 500-600 in the winter and 350-400 in the summer. When it's cold out, like -25, we go to around 700.

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    Originally posted by Cos

    my guess is that you were estimated, estimated, estimated and then read. So they were guessing 500, 500, 500 and you were actually using 800 800 800 so the differences add up. You can see on your bill when you were last read. Mine was November 28th and then December 28th but you may have had a gap. Either that or you were doing dished 3 times a day, cooking in the oven every day, and washing a shit ton of clothes and using your hot tub a lot. Over x-mas anything is possible.
    Nope, every one actual reading. Dec/Jan I ran our Christmas lights, (around 7 hrs a night) but I just didn't think they would add up that much more kWh's. Also we were in BC from Dec 23 to 28th. So no interior lights except the Xmas lights for that period.

    Originally posted by GTi-RS
    Are you using older Plasma TVs?
    No. One 55" DLP, two other small CRT's.


    Originally posted by ZMan2k2

    We average between 500-600 in the winter and 350-400 in the summer. When it's cold out, like -25, we go to around 700.
    300 more kWh's just for your furnace fan?? Or do you use electric heat somewhere?

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    3400sq ft living space, lots of pot lights, usual appliances, 1 plasma and 1 LED TV, AC unit in the summer and we average about 1000kWh's all year long. 2900 sounds insane. Probably not the case but are you sure your neighbors haven't tapped into your power?

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    Last edited by Cos; 12-20-2016 at 10:29 PM.
    Originally posted by adam c

    Line goes up, line goes down, line does squiggly things and fucks Alberta
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    Originally posted by superflychief
    3400sq ft living space, lots of pot lights, usual appliances, 1 plasma and 1 LED TV, AC unit in the summer and we average about 1000kWh's all year long. 2900 sounds insane. Probably not the case but are you sure your neighbors haven't tapped into your power?
    I wondered the same, but no. Only one house close to us and no extension cords lol.
    I'm thinking of getting one of those home energy monitors and see if I can track down the culprit. I can't see my Xmas lights tripling my normal monthly usage. (Which that alone seems high)

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    Last edited by Cos; 12-20-2016 at 10:30 PM.
    Originally posted by adam c

    Line goes up, line goes down, line does squiggly things and fucks Alberta
    "The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones"

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    Originally posted by Cos
    Assuming you have 4.8w LED bulbs on all the time you would have to have strung 674 of them. That works out to between 6 and 34 strings of lights depending how many of bulbs per string you have.

    Now if you have a timer double that number for the same usage. I highly doubt you have 674 lights let alone 1300 on at night only.
    Hmm...never actually counted. Here's my setup:


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    Just over 2500KWH last month.

    3100sqft home, 60x40 shop, 15x20 studio, 40x16 apartment.

    Heat lamps for the barn cats are on 24/7 for the duration of winter. Flood lights on all 3 buildings (total of 5, 3 are 24/7).

    All incandescent bulbs (just switched the floods to LED). 2 fridges, 2 stoves, 3 TV's, 3 computers, and one freezer.

    We just switched electricity providers so we will be paying a lot less soon.
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    Dec.19th to Jan.22nd 1430kwh. 3000sq/ft of living space. We hosted a lot of parties over the holidays as well. I have no idea if this is high or low for monthly consumption.
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    I bought a kill-a-watt last year to get an idea what power I was using in my camper trailer.. Its kind of neat to get an actual count on things, rather than going by what the sticker says on something.


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    Originally posted by Tomaz
    Just over 2500KWH last month.

    3100sqft home, 60x40 shop, 15x20 studio, 40x16 apartment.

    Heat lamps for the barn cats are on 24/7 for the duration of winter. Flood lights on all 3 buildings (total of 5, 3 are 24/7).

    All incandescent bulbs (just switched the floods to LED). 2 fridges, 2 stoves, 3 TV's, 3 computers, and one freezer.

    We just switched electricity providers so we will be paying a lot less soon.
    Now there's a little closer to my consumption. Still 400 kWh less than mine and you seem to have more running, other than my hot tub.


    Originally posted by 89coupe
    Dec.19th to Jan.22nd 1430kwh. 3000sq/ft of living space. We hosted a lot of parties over the holidays as well. I have no idea if this is high or low for monthly consumption.
    My sister has a typical Shane Home and she has the house lit up like an airport and her consumption is around 1200 over the holidays.

    Originally posted by Supa Dexta
    I bought a kill-a-watt last year to get an idea what power I was using in my camper trailer.. Its kind of neat to get an actual count on things, rather than going by what the sticker says on something.

    I am looking at this unit: http://www.powermeterstore.com/p7774/ted_5000.php






    A place in Calgary carries them. It monitors the entire house at the panel, but it's $240.
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    What the eff.

    Oct - 1467
    Nov - 1361
    Dec - 1621
    Jan - 1865

    2300 sq/ft

    There's no way my two computers idling all the time do that much. We turn off our lights. We don't use space heaters. Our heat should be gas. Well fuck, I'm glad this thread came along. Now I have to hunt down what's causing it.

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    Mine was like 20 bux off ebay or something. ha.. But its kind of a 'use it once and then throw it in the drawer' kind of device.

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