[chriscam]

Re: fridge/freezer costing £50pm in electricity. Is this fau

Yeah I agree the WS are costing excessive amounts. (see below)

My British Gas Unit cost is 13.10p /KWh

So using your calculations above,

That gives: 13.10 * 50.38 = £6.60 per month?

And the workstations,

1000/900 = 1.11
720/1.11 = 648.65
13.10 * 648.65 = £84.97 per month?

Is this correct, (excluding daily charge) if the energy monitor is reporting on average 70 & 900 watts per second for the examples?

But what your also saying is that fridge freezers should not be constantly using electricity (as they turn off and on), hence it would indicate that the appliance is faulty?

Would this fault be able to be fixed? And if so what kind of cost would be involved?

Thank you so much for eveyone’s help so far, it is very much apreciated.

[chriscam]

Re: fridge/freezer costing £50pm in electricity. Is this fau

It turned out that the fridge freezer was using between 70-100w.

When i turned it on after it being off for a few hours it used 100w which reduced to 70w once it had been on for a while.

I am not sure what that equates to electricity, is that 70 watts per second, it does seem to update/change every second so i guess so. And i guess KW stands for 1000 x Watts. So if i am correct then i just need my KW charge for electricity from British Gas to work out what this is on terms of cost.

I have measured some of other items in the flat and its seems these are using a lot more than i anticipated, such as tv stuff which is using about 60w, nearly as much as the fridge freezer.

Also the 3x computer workstations + GPUs are using nearly 900w!! Each system has twin zeon processors (8 core total) running Nvidia Quadpro GPUs on 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} load running grid computing.

So because of all this I should not really be worried about the fridge freezer as it does not seem too bad.

[chriscam]

Re: fridge/freezer costing £50pm in electricity. Is this fau

It is a normal sized tall fridge freezer.

[chriscam]

Re: fridge/freezer costing £50pm in electricity. Is this fau

Its hard to tell exactly how much power the fridge freezer is using which is why i have purchased the energy monitor as that will give an exact value for the appliance; you plug the appliance into it, and then plug the monitor into the plug socket.

What i do know though is that i turned off everything in my flat, except a new tv, a youview box, and a energy efficient light bulb, and the fridge freezer. I let my credit run out and put on emergency credit as that does not add the daily standing charge so you only get charged for electricity and nothing else.

In 2 hours it used 13 pence, which is 13 x 12 (hours) = £1.56 per day or £46.80 per month eg 1.56 x 30.

I am fairly confident that the other items do not use that much electricity, and therefore that only leaves the fridge freezer.

I will confirm exact usage once the power monitor arrives.

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