At the end of October, I posted an entry Do you suffer from high electricity bills?. I’ve been looking for a power meter to measure kWh for many months to establish Fish House Electricity costs, and I eventually managed to purchase one from JLB Electronics.
The results are now in for half of my fish house, the fish house is split between into two ring mains, so this is ring main one. (It also allows me to draw up to a maximum of 20A per ring main!). Ring main one supplies electricity for 9 aquariums.
Ring Main One Summary
- 120W of fluorescent lighting.
- 2.7kWh of aquarium heating.
Items connected to Ring Main One:-
- 3 x 40W Aquaglow fluorescent lights.
- 1 x 50W heater.
- 3 x 150W heaters.
- 2 x 300W heaters.
- 2 x 500W heaters.
- 1 x Hydor 300W external heater.
- 1 x Hydor internal combined Filter/300W heater.
- 1 x Eheim 2260 External Canister filter.
- 1 x Hagen Biolife 55 Internal Filter.
- 1 x Project PH600 Powerhead.
- 1 x Hagen 201 Powerhead.
- 1 x Personal Computer with 150W power supply.
The maximum wattage drawn by the electrical applications was 2.1kW on Friday 25 November at 4.03am.
In the last 32 days, the electricity consumed by ring main one is 605 kWh. A cost recorded by the power meter of 49 pounds. I’m charged 8.1p per kWh by nPower.
I’ll measure ring main two, and post the results on the blog, in a few weeks.
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