http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/ Hints, tips and discussions on reducing your impact on the environment. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Low Impact » » Reducing home electricity consumption - simple steps Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:49:37 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/#comment-961 [...] our Centameter and MS6115 power meters, we tracked down appliances that were always consuming significant amounts [...] [...] our Centameter and MS6115 power meters, we tracked down appliances that were always consuming significant amounts [...]

]]> http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Low Impact » » The MS6115 Power Meter Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:08:53 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/#comment-862 [...] written in the past about my Centameter - a great little device that tells me how much power the household is using at any moment.  But [...] [...] written in the past about my Centameter – a great little device that tells me how much power the household is using at any moment.  But [...]

]]> http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Ben Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:27:42 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070304/measuring-your-household-electricity-consumption/#comment-10 I managed to reduce the standby power usage of my house from 100W to 65W with the centameter. This was mainly achieved by turning off some appliances with a standby power usage at the wall where I don't use the applicance often, and putting an electronic timer switch on my entertainment system such that it turns off at the wall automatically when I don't need it. Now I only have standby power usage from my entertainment system for a few hours a day when I am home and awake and no usage when I leave for work or are asleep at night. I managed to reduce the standby power usage of my house from 100W to 65W with the centameter. This was mainly achieved by turning off some appliances with a standby power usage at the wall where I don’t use the applicance often, and putting an electronic timer switch on my entertainment system such that it turns off at the wall automatically when I don’t need it. Now I only have standby power usage from my entertainment system for a few hours a day when I am home and awake and no usage when I leave for work or are asleep at night.

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