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figure my power input | 10 comments (10 topical, editorial)

Re: figure my power input (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by befnme on Sat Mar 8th, 2008 at 06:43:38 PM MST
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Thanks, I actualy have 2 of those panels and 1 wind genny. haven't got everytthing up and running so i dont have any figures. PLus we are switching every light over to led. It is a little costly so thats kinda slow. I now have my children (10,12,15) to turn lights and tv's off while no one is around. It is a slow start but we are on the way.

Re: figure my power input (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by jonas302 on Sat Mar 8th, 2008 at 06:50:42 PM MST
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Changing bulbs and getting family involed is a great start!
Like Tom said you can usually find your comsumption on your power bill might help to get a watt meter to find where the power goes don't forget the phantom loads
a direct tv box takes 25 watts turned off! tevo doubles that
best of luck
Jonas

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Re: figure my power input (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 at 01:05:07 AM MST
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You might find our power-saving efforts useful...

Having reduced our household (and home office) power consumption 5 fold to 6kWh/day, we can now cover maybe 30% of it with 1.29kWp of PV panel.

http://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Do dig out the kWh number from your bill as TomW says: unless you have gotten down to the low single digits per day solar is not going to be able to make much of a dent!

Rgds

Damon

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