thought this was really interesting.. Electricty bills.

We just got our first bill for this place. Its for a period of 21 days & came to $96.20. This seemed excessive to me seems its only 21 days worth. So I called up to ask if it was an estimate or they took a proper reading (we have a dog).
She assured me it was a proper reading & went over the bill.
Went over what we use etc.

Normal/average size fridge
Normal average size (not a flat screen or plasma) TV, which is on all day most days (its off now though LOL)
And the PC which is on 24 hours. It goes into sleep mode but its never actually turned off properly.

We use the aircon sparingly.

Going off what I told her are our average day to day useage. its the computer chewing up the bill. I found that really interesting. DH has always told me that it costs the same to run the PC as it does to run a alarm clock. How wrong is he! She worked out that our average daily costs was about $3.50 a day. The PC would be about a $1.90 a day of that!

So I said so its not the air con, she said nope, looking at this bill if we use the aircon in the way I described ( a few hours in the evening at most & not everyday) then its defiantly the PC chewing it up. She worked out on average it would be accountable for about $170 of bill for a 90 day billing period! That is insane!

So people, if you are like us & just leave it on. Turn it off!

yikes !!!! i turn our appliances off at the wall but DH leaves the ones he uses on ... i havent been bothered to nag him about it as i know it will go in one ear , find no brain cells to latch on to and out the other !!! but i will now ... thats an interesting thought to put to him ... we never question out bills, but i might just do it now !!

:rofl: yep your DH was definitely wrong! DF is adamant about keeping ours off when it's not in use!

eek! that is interesting - and scary because ours is on all the time!

wow! good thing i don't leave ours on!

Wow, had no idea a PC could use up that much electricity. Ours is on all day but switched off at night.

Regards,
Dianne

wow! We have a huge monitor (it's like 100cm LCD or something) which we turn off when not in use, but the comp stays on.

I am going to turn it off right now!
Do you think laptops are the same?? I always leave mine on in sleep but shut.

Our laptops are on charge all the time.

My laptop is closed at night, powers off, but is charging. TV gets put into standby mode (you know, you pick up the remote and press on and it comes on). Since we had the energy efficient guys here, the most things get turned off at the wall. And I try to use stuff only during the middle of the day / night

Shouldn't leave your tv on standby.

Did you know plasmas and LCD screens can only be used for three hours at a time or you will burn them out....they even get hot

You can hibernate the pc so it powers off but it restarts where you left it. Make sure the monitor is turned off as they use the most power.

I checked mine using my energy meter and it doesn't use that much. The PC on its own is 1c an hour so if I left it on for 24 hours that would be 24c per day. However, it is a very old PC about 11 years old.

wow..we have three computers (a PC and two laptops) on all the time :hide: although, DF always told me that they use barely any electricity. Oh really Mr IT!! Might be hibernating mine a bit more often now!

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Shouldn't leave your tv on standby.

Did you know plasmas and LCD screens can only be used for three hours at a time or you will burn them out....they even get hot

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We've had ours two years and always leave it on standby and it's fine?
If that's the case why don't they ever specify in the instruction manuals. So annoying.

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Shouldn't leave your tv on standby.

Did you know plasmas and LCD screens can only be used for three hours at a time or you will burn them out....they even get hot

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I question that one as well, many businesses now use LCD screens for computers and that means they are on all day. Maybe it is something about the early models that is no longer an issue in the current ones.

OOps mine is on aaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllll day

170 per 3 months doesnt seem like much to me sorry to say.
everyone i know use 300+
our bills r normally between 380 and 450.

That's really interesting Efjay, I'm going to tell my DH that! He is a sparky by trade which makes it hard for me to argue power saving tips with him :lol: but now I have back up!