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Just a little bragg


By Birdmmjb, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Dec 18th, 2007 at 04:47:03 PM MST
This month better than last

Today is meter reading day at the Bryant house. So out the the box I go.  Now I'm expecting a larger kw usage this month as we had arround 10 straight days of rain.  I had to give up and do the laundry using the electric clothes dryer and we went away on an over night trip and used the electirc heaters to keep the pets warm as we dont like to leave the propane space heaters running with no one at home.

Well dispite this the monthly usage is down another 0.6 kwh per day and I used less than half the kwh's from the same month last year. 23.1kwhs maybe I need to hire Dan B. to build me a larger wind generator.  

Maybe there will be a little energy left for the grandkids.

Jan
Just a little bragg | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by TomW on Tue Dec 18th, 2007 at 10:49:46 AM MST
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Jan;

Haha. The addiction process is complete.

There is no cure and you will never actually achieve satisfaction on a "final" setup.

Its a great feeling isn't it?

Welcome to the club.

Cheers.

TomW

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain



Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by ghurd on Tue Dec 18th, 2007 at 11:09:46 AM MST
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The addiction process is NOT complete.
Only 10 days with dirty clothes?  Close, but not quite.

Those numbers sound great with couple sets of HF PVs and an Ametek!
G-

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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by Birdmmjb on Tue Dec 18th, 2007 at 07:16:13 PM MST
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Oops that shoud have read 23.1 kwh per day.  I wish it was per month.

Jan



Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by electrak on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 05:47:24 AM MST
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I guess I should bragg a bit to, 12KWH/day mains charging two electric tractors, Chrismas lights, electric water heater, pump, furnce blower and all the other goodies of modern life,
Keep inconveniencing electrons, the more you work them the stronger they get.

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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by catweazle on Tue Dec 25th, 2007 at 03:02:59 AM MST
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When you said 23.1 kWh/month I was very impressed. I'm not so impressed now. :)

Catweazle


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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by TheCasualTraveler (a.miklos@yahoo.com) on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 05:55:53 AM MST
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I thought I was weird to keep going out to the meter and checking the KWH. I'm not alone. Down to 18 per day.
Andy


Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 06:11:10 AM MST
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7 per day here!

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

Rgds

Damon

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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by AbyssUnderground on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 08:49:54 AM MST
(User Info) http://www.repowered.co.uk

About 6kWh a day here but 4.3kWh of that is 2 servers running at 180w 24/7! Time to do a Damon and use a laptop! :-) My MacBook uses just 14 watts while idle.

http://www.repowered.co.uk - My Renewable Energy site.
msn[at]m3ezw.co.uk - my msn if you want a chat.
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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#9)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 09:26:10 AM MST
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There you go: ahead of me already!

I'm told that Macs are often racked instead of servers these days because power consumption is so low but performance is good.

Rgds

Damon

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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by BT Humble (bt_humble@bigpond.com) on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 03:07:36 PM MST
(User Info) http://www.humbletown.org

I haven't checked mine lately, but installing the solar hot water system a few weeks ago should have made a substantial difference.  It's one of these:

http://www.solahart.com.au/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=752

BTH

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Re: Just a little bragg (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by tecker on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 09:02:37 AM MST
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Paying the min to keep the meter installed . I really like my electric floor heater I,ve rebulit it several times It's dumbed "Squatty little heater" .It uses too much to run Off my current daily charge so I Too watch the meter .I 'm going to hack the meter sooner or later to read it from the line .



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