shvrdavid posted at 2:45 PM Tue, 18 April 2023 - #4462606

What did you measure the draw with that gave you a 500 watt power draw? And peaks do not equate to an average draw. Do you have the average draw as well?

Actually the powerline of the workstation is plugged on a separate fuse line and has it's own Kwh counter for business statistics, same with other things in the house. We just ran a test for the village community so we were the lucky ones who just had hot boiler water to take showers every 10 day's the past 3 month. witch made a saving of about 2/3 of the whole consumptions. It is a little project we started at the beginning of the year :)  So naturally this little Superfly test was alarming and show the impact and effective cost of what you do. 

We have for the testing period a max average of 7 kwh a day  For all, meaning that mostly you need to get along with 5 kwh a day including workstations tv etc. Showers and washing cause a peak every 10 - 12 day's that is when you can use it . Dish are hand washed with water heated up in a pan. A nice experience and you realize where your money goes down the drain for the first time in your life :)  So naturally you notice a peak for rendering with superfly right away if it is raising the consumption by 3 to 8 instead of 5 for the normal day's. making you realize what costs are involved using superfly. 

These statistics will be made public every 3 month throughout the region so people get sensitized, but more sensitized get the ones who participate to the tests. so just a little project of many :)

The past 3 month without any notable restrictions in life the test reduced the consumption from about 2000 kwh to 600 kwh  so in theory 1400 kwh were just going down the drain. allot considering that you actually just let it run to have it running but have to pay for it . It is not a standby or a Led this project goes a little deeper. Naturally resulting to also see how much a render really cost's you .