Originally posted by: mscdex0
I don't know about you guys, but........
i just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to geico.
Quoted because it was the most interesting thing I read in this thread.
Quoted because it was the most interesting thing I read in this thread.
Originally posted by: apoppin
some people grow winter vegetables and herbs using high intensity discharge lights inside their home which serves a double purpose of heating the home and producing fresh out-of-season veggies.
:thumbsup:
no[t much] extra humidity like using the dryer inside
my dad used to do this with tomato plants under a heavy sheet of black plastic in the garage when I was little, only after my parents divorced did I find out it wasn't tomatoes...
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Originally posted by: commOdog
Originally posted by: apoppin
some people grow winter vegetables and herbs using high intensity discharge lights inside their home which serves a double purpose of heating the home and producing fresh out-of-season veggies.
:thumbsup:
no[t much] extra humidity like using the dryer inside
my dad used to do this with tomato plants under a heavy sheet of black plastic in the garage when I was little, only after my parents divorced did I find out it wasn't tomatoes...
lol
Always a treat to find out daddy was a druggy afterall. :frown:
LEARN TO USE S3/STR ON YOUR PC
This is one of the best ways to not only cut down on electricity costs, but extend the lifespan of many hardware components. Most people only use their computers and hour or two a day (and often less) but many them leave the systems running constantly. S3 sleep (otherwise known as "suspend to ram" or "STR") allows the system to completely power down everything but the ram (which uses a tiny amount of power, often under 5 watts) and sleep when not in use, but fire up back to where you were in just a couple seconds.
This is one of the best ways to not only cut down on electricity costs, but extend the lifespan of many hardware components. Most people only use their computers and hour or two a day (and often less) but many them leave the systems running constantly. S3 sleep (otherwise known as "suspend to ram" or "STR") allows the system to completely power down everything but the ram (which uses a tiny amount of power, often under 5 watts) and sleep when not in use, but fire up back to where you were in just a couple seconds.
for one, I was in reference to adding capacitors to motors, solonoids and relays to balance the inductance.
for two, the savings in "several inductive loads" is based in the fiction that you could find "several inductive loads" of any significance in the common household. The resultant savings to the normal household would be inconsequential, even if the capacitance were free.
I mean, what are we talking about, a couple of dollars a month off the average electrical bill? What is the power factor for the average household dishwasher or clothes washer? A typical household clothes washer can cost as much as $1,500 to operate over its lifetime (12 years), and almost 90% of all energy used in operating a washing machine goes towards heating the water.
So, let's assume that you pay $2 /month just for the electricity for that washing machine motor. (You can do the math.) Let's assume you raise the 70% power factor of that $2/month motor to 100%. Wow, you could save nearly 50¢
You could do better by lowering the voltage to only what is required to maintain the load. That might save 60¢
Originally posted by: RideFree
I found that I need to unplug the
Clothes Dryer
Oven
Range Top
Refigerator
Freezer
2 TVs
& Computer
I've already turned the thermostat down to 55 and
am washing the dishes by hand in Cold-Water All.
RideFree - You're drilled a little off center just like some one I know, but since we are closely related, you can keep using my picture for an avatar
BTW - just ordered one from the 2nd addr on the thread. I hope it measures true RMS. Should be handy around my ghetto ranch.
r
phios has got it pretty much nailed. An often running pump motor way out back with a long line and loss might benefit from a cap investment wise.
RideFree make some good point, too.
Hiwire,
Having to pump water from the Colorado to the north forty in Arizona hardly qualifies as the average household. Sounds like you need some of that de-hydrated water.
I might be able to cut you some slack on the avatar since the one with diesel horns doesn?t come in my size.
Having to pump water from the Colorado to the north forty in Arizona hardly qualifies as the average household. Sounds like you need some of that de-hydrated water.
I might be able to cut you some slack on the avatar since the one with diesel horns doesn?t come in my size.
I use my KillAWatt all the time... for work though. Not sure what you would do with this otherwise
Kristopher
Kristopher
my electric bill for 2 months is 47 bucks and i think that is high. our gas bill is like 16 dollars for 2 months.
Just go to any Home Depot. They carry about 2 or 3 types up here in the Northeast.
In Summer I would never recomend it, but in winter we tend to have a humidifier anyway so from a humididity aspect I can't see a problem. I don't like them because they don't do a very good job with catching the last bit of lint. I find they add to the dust in the house.
BTW unless your dryer is defective the amount of carbon Dioxide is virtually nil. They burn as clean as your oven. Is your oven vented outside?
Mark
How much do these things usually cost? I told my sister that I wanted one of these for Christmas but maybe I should buy one now if they are cheaper than usual.
Bill, I am guessing that you must not run a lot of appliances...
I moved from a 2 bedroom appartment to a nice 1721 Squarefoot Town home, in Georgetown (316 Williamsburg Lane) back in 2002. I stayed there for about 2 years and bought a house in Lexington in Feb. 04. My bill while I was in Georgetown, was never less than $100.00.
But to be fair, I was running Dual Servers, my wife had a PC, and my kids had a PC. We had a 31 inch RCA TV that we would leave on, all the time, sometimes 2-3 days straight,and I had a Kenwood 500 watt Stereo Receiver that would stay on all the time, also. My wife likes to leave a light or 2 on, all the time.
Now we live in a 1921 square foot 4 (soon to be 5 due to remodeling) bedroom, 2 bathroom, house with 2 garages, and for the most part our bills have been $150-200 dollars, for the past 2 years.
I will sell the house in February, or refinance it (2-28 arms...go figure) and figure to get something bigger with a basement.
Just buy huge solar panels to run your television. If they're not producing enough power to also wash your clothes, scrub them in the tub with the light off or wear the same set over again for a couple of days until you have enough power.
Or become Amish, that'd be cool too.
Or become Amish, that'd be cool too.
Were you on KU? There is a massive difference between KU and whatever other utilities are in the area. My son moved to Nicholasville and his gas + electric jumped from an average $85(all electric house KU) to Nearly $300 per month. Our current house is all electric and the A/C ran a lot during Jul and Aug Plus using the dryer a lot. $74 highest bill.
AuctionHugh
Senior member
I bought one of these a few years ago to see if a freezer in my garage was sucking down electricity. It was not. BTW I think I paid $30 at the time.
The kill a watt is a neat toy. It does have rms and it has no memory when unplugged but you can leave it plugged into something for a month like a fridge which has huge usage variations. I found that my power usage with compressor on and off were both normal but the compressor runs too often costing me $$$.
If I were Einstein, I would drop out of high school and sit at home all day on the verge of wetting my pants, coming up with random formulas that people will learn, but only supernerds will really care about, although a host of supernerd wannabes will run around pretending they understand my crap.
I think I'd rather be God.
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