Electricity (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

You solar lads must be swimming in the count duckula pool of electricity these days

 

[ann post]

Yeah I have one of those - it's this one but i definitely paid less for it online

@magicbastarder I would say though - it doesn't tell you an awful lot that isn't written on the device already.

 

[magicbastarder]

it's for my lathe - which does not have a predictable power drain at all. it's rated to a max 1.5kW, but is very much on/off/on/off/on/off; and even when running i have no clear idea of how much it's drawing; it won't need a full horsepower to spin a small piece without resistance at 1,000RPM, for example.

but given it's stated ability to cost me up to 50c an hour to run, it'd be good to get a good estimate.

 

[ann post]

it's for my lathe - which does not have a predictable power drain at all. it's rated to a max 1.5kW, but is very much on/off/on/off/on/off; and even when running i have no clear idea of how much it's drawing; it won't need a full horsepower to spin a small piece without resistance at 1,000RPM, for example.

but given it's stated ability to cost me up to 50c an hour to run, it'd be good to get a good estimate.

I'm 90% certain the above machine will do that check for you - but I can check possibly. I'm just not sure is it in the work box or the house or the other house...

 

[ernesto]

You solar lads must be swimming in the count duckula pool of electricity these days

yeah so far this month we've sold back approx €50 worth of wall pixies. Hoping these hot spells completely offset a winter month

 

[pete]

A 10 quid smart plug with energy monitoring will definitely produce that kind of data for you. Not exactly a huge deal to have to look at an app to get it.

 

[ernesto]

Also was thinking of changing to Airtricity when our contract is up in September but electric Ireland offered me a new 12 month contract with a monthly discount of 21% which I could opt to sign up immediately. Result

 

[pete]

Also was thinking of changing to Airtricity when our contract is up in September but electric Ireland offered me a new 12 month contract with a monthly discount of 21% which I could opt to sign up immediately. Result

Im going with Bord Gais for their sweet sweet 3 hours of super cheap EV charging overnight.

 

[Anthony]

Im going with Bord Gais for their sweet sweet 3 hours of super cheap EV charging overnight.

what's this now?

 

[pete]

what's this now?

Electric Ireland is 2-4am

 

[magicbastarder]

there are overlapping time periods there?

 

[pete]

there are overlapping time periods there?

Yep. I suppose it’s just easier than presenting it as day/peak/day/night/ev/night

 

[ernesto]

yeah so far this month we've sold back approx €50 worth of wall pixies. Hoping these hot spells completely offset a winter month

Just got our monthly bill. Net €50 which has brought our account up to €88 in credit. Last week We resigned back up to electric Ireland (12 month contract) as they were offending a 22% monthly discount. If we continue like this AND get government subsidies this winter I'm not sure we'll ever run up a bill again