- Joined
- Mar 21, 2004
- Messages
- 19,091
- Solutions
- 1
- Location
- in my head
- Website
- strikeaction.bandcamp.com
Heating is a wood pellet boiler. Fire in the boiler heats a water reservoir within the boiler. It lets the fire go out when the reservoir reaches a certain temp, then an electric element is used to get it going again - that's one source of electicity use. There's a fan on the flue that runs when the fire is going - that's another. Those are going all the time, even when the heating in the house is turned off
(though obvs they go more when the heating in the house is on, because the house is drawing heat from the boiler reservoir so it takes more fire to keep it hot)
When the heating in the house is turned on, the water in the boiler reservoir is used to heat the water in the central heating system, and there's a pump to move the water around. Another source of electricity use
I knew the boiler used some electricity, but had never considered before that it might be a heavy user
Anyone know of any way to measure something like that? None of the components (boiler, fan, pump) have a plug, but maybe there's something I can attach around the wires going into them to measure the kWh used?
Anything with an element or motor is going to use a decent bit of juice