She would never listen to me....
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But she takes notice of a little meter...
For YEARS I have gone on about wasting electricity and the cost of our bills... Lights left on, TV in a room with no one watching, all those kind of things...
Last month we had one of those little displays that the electricity companies give you and I put it in the kitchen on the work surface. It displays how much electricity you are using and the likely cost per month.
My wife kept watching it and then put the oven on, and the kettle full of water, the cost went sky high
she turned them off... it went down... not much was said. 
The result is though we have suddenly we have become very energy conscious... she came into the study the other day and asked if I needed the top light on as we were burning four spot lights, "could I use the single light on the desk?" she asked
No more oven on for 20 mins before putting the food in
All I need to do now keep here away from the meter when the compressor and welder are on the go in the garage
For YEARS I have gone on about wasting electricity and the cost of our bills... Lights left on, TV in a room with no one watching, all those kind of things...
Last month we had one of those little displays that the electricity companies give you and I put it in the kitchen on the work surface. It displays how much electricity you are using and the likely cost per month.
My wife kept watching it and then put the oven on, and the kettle full of water, the cost went sky high
she turned them off... it went down... not much was said. The result is though we have suddenly we have become very energy conscious... she came into the study the other day and asked if I needed the top light on as we were burning four spot lights, "could I use the single light on the desk?" she asked
No more oven on for 20 mins before putting the food in
All I need to do now keep here away from the meter when the compressor and welder are on the go in the garage
Roop said:
How do these gadgets work...?
I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
Its a transmitter that clips around the main lead out of the Electricity meter which transmits the amount of electricity being used to the remote display which you can put anywhere within a reasonable distance. (100 merers i think)I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
WorAl said:
buzzer said:
No more oven on for 20 mins before putting the food in
How do you plan on warming it up? Light a fire in it? granted it doesn't take 20 mins to warm up, but I think you were over exaggerating too
buzzer said:
Roop said:
How do these gadgets work...?
I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
Its a transmitter that clips around the main lead out of the Electricity meter which transmits the amount of electricity being used to the remote display which you can put anywhere within a reasonable distance. (100 merers i think)I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
euroboy said:
I have had an Efergy E2 since April time and found it to be very good and surprisingly accurate when tallied against the meter readings.
Certainly makes you more energy conscious.
Agreed. what has also surprised me is how much energy we burn with apparently nothing on.... things like the central heating boiler, the central heating pump, the house alarm, all the things we have on standby, the clocks on the cookers, the microwaves, the PC that's on all the time, the router... the electric piano that's always on standby and only used 3 times a week..Certainly makes you more energy conscious.
it really has made us energy (read that cost) conscious...
the meter is very accurate. If I switch on a 60W bulb, 10 seconds later the meter goes up by that amount, give or take a couple of watts.
Roop said:
buzzer said:
Roop said:
How do these gadgets work...?
I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
Its a transmitter that clips around the main lead out of the Electricity meter which transmits the amount of electricity being used to the remote display which you can put anywhere within a reasonable distance. (100 merers i think)I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
Roop said:
buzzer said:
Roop said:
How do these gadgets work...?
I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
Its a transmitter that clips around the main lead out of the Electricity meter which transmits the amount of electricity being used to the remote display which you can put anywhere within a reasonable distance. (100 merers i think)I'd like one but not sure it'd work here.
We were given one too, a Currency Counter I think its called. Great little gadget. Splits the energy usage down by minutes/hours etc and also shows usage for each day of the week, as well as showing you a total estimated cost per day/week/month.
Certainly helps to see how much is wasted when everything is left on. Still doesn't stop me using everything at once sometimes though!
Certainly helps to see how much is wasted when everything is left on. Still doesn't stop me using everything at once sometimes though!
Puggit said:
This is the one I got... comes with software so you can download the data from the display to you PC and then produce graphs ect... sad I know http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EON-Energy-Saving-Meter-PC-S...
buzzer said:
Puggit said:
This is the one I got... comes with software so you can download the data from the display to you PC and then produce graphs ect... sad I know http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EON-Energy-Saving-Meter-PC-S...
http://www.eonenergy.com/At-Home/Products/Products...
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