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[ipaine]

Bought a couple of window AC units 3ish weeks ago. 12000BTU one for the kitchen / living room. Then 4 or so days later bought a 8000BTU one for bedroom. The 12000BTU ran for about 16 hours a day for 5 to 6 days. But hasn't been used since. But I have the bedroom one running all night long keeping bedroom @ 17C.

In that period the 12000BTU used 20kWh. The bedroom one uses on average about 1kWh a night, 19kWh so far. So I've spent a whopping $9 on AC.
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Yes, but once you add all the extra fees and taxes on the fees and taxes on the taxes then it will be another $100.

 

[Izerous]

The bulk servers i bought only 2 remain that I have not either re-purposed, given away or sold at this point. Nice to not be staring at a half rack work of servers in the basement.

 

[sswilson]

On a positive note, in spite of having Covid and having to cancel my travel plans, thumbs up to the cancellation policy of the airbnb host I had booked with. Full refund up to 48 hours prior is pretty decent especially considering it was a full 1 week block booking.

 

[lowfat]

Got the replacement speed sensor for the Breville mixer. And it fixed it. Actually a genuine Breville part. Pretty good on them for still supplying parts for EOL equipment. Even if I think the fact that it needs a speed sensor is silly.

 

[gingerbee]

Bought a couple of window AC units 3ish weeks ago. 12000BTU one for the kitchen / living room. Then 4 or so days later bought a 8000BTU one for bedroom. The 12000BTU ran for about 16 hours a day for 5 to 6 days. But hasn't been used since. But I have the bedroom one running all night long keeping bedroom @ 17C.

In that period the 12000BTU used 20kWh. The bedroom one uses on average about 1kWh a night, 19kWh so far. So I've spent a whopping $9 on AC.
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well, I would love to know how you monitor your power usage ( don't know if you have a solar setup/whole house battery ) I assumed you're on city power.

One upgrade I am so glad we did the month after we bought our home was central air, our house is 1700+ sq feet and our Trane 2-ton unit cools the house down nicely, mind you we tend to keep it much higher than 17c because of the high humidity we have to deal with in Muskoka ( its a swamp ) dew point normally for us is in the 18-22c range so I have our AC set to keep the whole house at 24c all summer long and it only adds about 30-40 a top of our monthly hydro bill. we have good insulation I think r80+ in the attic and R25 in the walls.

 

[lowfat]

well, I would love to know how you monitor your power usage ( don't know if you have a solar setup/whole house battery ) I assumed you're on city power.

One upgrade I am so glad we did the month after we bought our home was central air, our house is 1700+ sq feet and our Trane 2-ton unit cools the house down nicely, mind you we tend to keep it much higher than 17c because of the high humidity we have to deal with in Muskoka ( its a swamp ) dew point normally for us is in the 18-22c range so I have our AC set to keep the whole house at 24c all summer long and it only adds about 30-40 a top of our monthly hydro bill. we have good insulation I think r80+ in the attic and R25 in the walls.

One of the units has built in power monitoring. The other I have plugged in to a smart power meter. Both are connected to Home Assistant.

 

[gingerbee]

So you do have whole home battery backups?.

 

[lowfat]

So you do have whole home battery backups?.

No I have no solar, no battery backup.

 

[gingerbee]

No I have no solar, no battery backup.

ok so I am confused, what is this unit you are talking about and how is it wired in your whole house, I was asking as I am on the fence about getting an inverter generator with Generlink or possibly getting and EG4 14kwh whole home battery for backing up my house. so I was just wondering how you monitor everything so well when you don't have anything but normal power from your power company? thanks

 

[lowfat]

ok so I am confused, what is this unit you are talking about and how is it wired in your whole house, I was asking as I am on the fence about getting an inverter generator with Generlink or possibly getting and EG4 14kwh whole home battery for backing up my house. so I was just wondering how you monitor everything so well when you don't have anything but normal power from your power company? thanks

They are window AC units that just use a standard 120V plug.

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But whole house monitoring is pretty cheap these days.

https://www.amazon.ca/Emporia-Monitor-Circuit-Electricity-Metering/dp/B08G37ML2R?th=1