Kill-A-Watt meter results Part I dealt with standby losses, this post deals with appliance loads. I measured all of the plug in house hold appliances and electronic equipment that I could find. Since the Kill-A-Watt meter only measures 120 Volts AC, I did not measure things like the electric stove or the electric clothes dryer. [...]
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I received this Kill-A-Watt EZ meter a while ago, but never really played around with it that much. Today, I decided to check a few things out and see how much money it is costing me to, for example, keep the TV in standby mode for a day. I pick on the TV because [...] I wrote about this in an earlier post, but I thought I could expand on the information a little bit. We have three heating zones in our house, each is controlled by a programmable thermostat. By installing the programmable thermostats, I believe we have saved about 15 to 20 percent on our heating bills. The [...] Its that time of the year again. Before the start of every heating season, I always think it is a good idea to get the furnace serviced. This will, hopefully, prevent the startling cold wake up one January morning accompanied by that sinking feeling that the heat is out. I was a little late this [...] Now that winter is approaching, I started to keep track of the Heating Degree Days (HDD) for this year. I like keep track of such things because that is my nature. One thing that is always interesting to me is the ratio of HDD to Gallons of oil burned to heat the house. This is [...] This was a big one on my hit list. I have wanted to replace the windows in our master bedroom ever since the first winter night I lay awake and listened to the wind blowing right through them. There was this little piece of plastic that was supposed to be some sort of weather stripping [...] |
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