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Re: Tumble Dryer using vast amounts of electricity

THanks for the help everyone. I can see the sense in what you’re saying, and its perplexing. Something has managed to use that electricity. At first we did think it was a meter fault, but we’re back to normal now.

I think I might have to try running it again with an eye on the meter. And also take a look back at previous bills to try and create some averages over different periods and make sure there hasn’t been a mistake somewhere.

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Re: Tumble Dryer using vast amounts of electricity

Thanks I’ll try the fuse thing. ‘Energy spike’ was a bad turn of phrase, what I mean was the ‘inexplicable short-term increase in energy consumption’! Talking to my husband again, he had to put most of the loads on twice in order to get them dry, so it probably was running for long periods of time over the three days Which is making me thing that maybe we (also?) have a problem with it not actually working very well!!

We used 244 units of electricity between 29th October and 1st November. We usually use around 250-270 per month!

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Re: Tumble Dryer using vast amounts of electricity

No we haven’t! We did at first wonder if it was a meter fault (we had used about a month’s worth of electricity in 3 days), but now we’ve stopped using the dryer, energy usage is back to normal – about 8-9 units a day or thereabouts. We’re pretty sure it’s the dryer that caused the energy spike!

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