How much electricity does your house use?

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[SkiBum5.0]

1150 kw/h for us in Jan/Feb. Big hit was 47Gj of Nat Gas that same period.

[Ekliptix]

Mine is for a 2,500sqft house (built 1996), plus 2x 1,500sqft garages on nat gas heating.

About 800kWh per month. Looks like less use compared to my previous year.


And gas, why not. About 30GJ per month average:

[firebane]

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[pheoxs]

That 3 cent kwh ooooo baby. Sucks the delivery shit is a lot of the price too tho

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Rage2 is winning at life. Saving energy is for losers.

[sabad66]

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That 3 cent kwh ooooo baby. Sucks the delivery shit is a lot of the price too tho

jesus, what were you up to last March that made you use more than double this March? Mining crypto?

[Tik-Tok]

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Rage2 is winning at life. Saving energy is for losers.

Yeah guys, where's your city spirit? Be a part of the energy!

[rage2]

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Rage2 is winning at life. Saving energy is for losers.

I’m on a legacy plan for the last 20 years where I’ve been too lazy to switch. Wonder if there’s any savings. I assume since actual energy costs are so low it’s negligible anyways.

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jesus, what were you up to last March that made you use more than double this March? Mining crypto?

Nah, I have electric baseboard heaters on the ground floor and was working in the office down there the whole month. Set em at 22C and loved life but it was super chilly outside so they were running a lot haha. Worth it though, was such a nice month.

Plus half a dozen 3d printers and was running them near 24/7 at that point.

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That's what I thought too haha. I have no idea why they're so bad. Maybe newer UPS's are better? Mine are the old beefy APC SmartUPS 1500 units. I just kept them from back in the day and fresh battery every couple of years.

I just pulled out the killawatt and hooked up my Cyberpower 1500. With nothing plugged in, it settles at about 3-4 watts. The monitor takes about 1-2 watts on idle, while the computer drains about 4 watts.

What is interesting is that at load, the killawatt is fairly stable around 370-400 watts at the wall, while the Cyberpower fluctuates around 300-450 watts on the screen. Maybe someone can explain to me why that happens.

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I just pulled out the killawatt and hooked up my Cyberpower 1500. With nothing plugged in, it settles at about 3-4 watts. The monitor takes about 1-2 watts on idle, while the computer drains about 4 watts.

What is interesting is that at load, the killawatt is fairly stable around 370-400 watts at the wall, while the Cyberpower fluctuates around 300-450 watts on the screen. Maybe someone can explain to me why that happens.

killawatt probably uses a longer rolling average for its calculation whereas the cyberpower shows instantaneous. I run my printers off it and can see the cycling as well but it lines up with the heaters kicking on and off so seems accurate ish

[The_Rural_Juror]

Thanks for that.

[Xtrema]

I also have old ass APC 1500 (vintage early 2000?). While I have never put a meter on them, I do notice the older APC chew through batteries 2x quicker than the newer Cyberpower PFC units.

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Wow, I'm amazed at some of the electricity usage in this thread. I've become much more aware of my own electricity consumption and we do our best to reduce/minimize usage. In Spain they offer different rate set-ups and we've chosen one where we have 8-hours a day at $0.09/kWh and the other 16-hours at $0.19/kWh (electricity here is definitely expensive compared to Alberta but it's also a much greener energy mix).

We're just a couple in a 1B1B apartment but even when working from home 24/7 we're still under 150kWh per month.

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Damn my usage has shot up. Only thing I can think of is the furnace fans.

[davidI]

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Is that a paper bill? Savage!



Damn my usage has shot up. Only thing I can think of is the furnace fans.

If your furnace fan is using 3x the consumption of my entire household when we're working from home 24/7, I'd consider having it looked at...

[ExtraSlow]

From all the reading I've done, furnace fans pull 400 - 600 W if they are the old single speed type. That's 288 to 432 kwh/mo running continuously.
Feel free to check my math.

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anyone have a good source in Canada for those Mars motors? They used to be readily available on Amazon but haven't been in stock for a while:
https://www.amazon.ca/Mars-10860-Azu.../dp/B00O1566GW

@sabad66 I have no idea where to buy them. I would like to know.

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@sabad66 I have no idea where to buy them. I would like to know.

What's the power consumption? Is it that much better?

Is this a DC or AC motor?

These don't seem to be that expensive.

[sabad66]

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What's the power consumption? Is it that much better?

Is this a DC or AC motor?

These don't seem to be that expensive.

Depends what you are coming from. If you have a really old motor, from reading the reviews it seems like you can have up to 75% power savings. It doesn't give an exact spec because it "auto sizes" based on your home so everyone's will be different.

One guy mentioned the low speed circulation mode is only 40w draw at his house from this vs their original motor which was 230w. So it could be quite significant if you are coming from a really inefficient motor.

Here's a nice install guide for this motor i had bookmarked:
https://thelazycouple.com/give-your-...nd-9b7bfb4f8ea