{"id":365,"date":"2008-10-15T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:09:12","slug":"whole-house-electricity-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2008\/10\/15\/whole-house-electricity-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole-house electricity monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/electric.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2008\/10\/15\/whole-house-electricity-monitor\/electric-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/electric.png\" data-orig-size=\"100,85\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Electricity\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/electric.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Electricity\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/electric.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/07\/17\/watching-the-electricity-meter\/trackback\/\">wrote previously<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been keeping tabs on how much electricity I use.\u00a0 Last week I got a whole-house electricity monitor called an OWL from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalcollection.com\/natural-products\/Electrisave.aspx\">natural collection<\/a> and have been playing around with it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprising how surprising the results are, if you see what I mean.\u00a0 I know that switching on the kettle uses more electricity, but I was a bit taken aback at how much more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The same goes for the oven although it makes it very easy to see when it&#8217;s up to temperature!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put in the amount that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/about\/\">Ecotricity<\/a> charge me per kWh (10.65p, although the OWL only allows tenths of a penny so it thinks it&#8217;s 10.7p).\u00a0 With the oven on it shoots up to over 30p\/hour, and when it&#8217;s up to temperature it goes right back down to about 5p\/hour.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest I&#8217;ve seen it yet is 1.2p\/hour (at night), which is about 115W.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what the accuracy of the measurement is.\u00a0 It does seem to drift about in a 30W range (i.e. by about 0.3p\/hour), but perhaps there is some appliance doing that in standby for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote previously, I&#8217;ve been keeping tabs on how much electricity I use.\u00a0 Last week I got a whole-house electricity monitor called an OWL from natural collection and have been playing around with it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprising how surprising the results are, if you see what I mean.\u00a0 I know that switching on the kettle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-ecotricity","tag-electricity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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