Folks, I have been trying to reduce my power consumption in my all electric house. I have a kill-a-watt doodad and have been chasing around my 110 volt loads to look for any problems.
My latest discovery is after one full week of data collection on my single residential refrigerator. The bugger consumed 12 KwH of power in one week. That's 50 per month and at 10 cents per Kwh only a 5 dollar portion of my nearly 100$ per month electric bill. It is not a new appliance at all, it came with the house and is labeled as a 7.5 amp consumer on the label which I realize is worst case load.
At 60$ per year, I see no reason to upgrade this appliance to some 900$ fancy schmansy energy star appliance that might consume half of the power and leave me with a 30 year payback period.
I'm back to my theory that the water heater and clothes dryer are the hogs of the home.
My latest discovery is after one full week of data collection on my single residential refrigerator. The bugger consumed 12 KwH of power in one week. That's 50 per month and at 10 cents per Kwh only a 5 dollar portion of my nearly 100$ per month electric bill. It is not a new appliance at all, it came with the house and is labeled as a 7.5 amp consumer on the label which I realize is worst case load.
At 60$ per year, I see no reason to upgrade this appliance to some 900$ fancy schmansy energy star appliance that might consume half of the power and leave me with a 30 year payback period.
I'm back to my theory that the water heater and clothes dryer are the hogs of the home.