It helps to know the typical wattage consumption of your household appliances
Most of us have experienced the feeling when we open an electricity bill and the room starts rotating and your heart start beating like it was fit to burst. It’s what's known as an "electric shock" and when the blood starts to flow back through your veins again, you scratch your head and ask yourself the leading question "What happened here? How come my bill got so high?"
Most of go through life, increasingly aware that energy costs money and a lot of it. We spend our lives running around switching of lights and appliances and reminding the rest of the family to do the same, largely to no avail. After all they don't get to pay the electricity bill.
What very few of us do, is to attempt to analyse exactly how our electricity bill is made and which appliances are cost effective to use, and which are real energy guzzlers.
For those who were anxious to know and didn't know where to look here are a few interesting averaged statistics (watts/monthly in descending order).
- Forty Gallon Water heater - 5000
- Thirty Gallon Water heater - 3800
- Clothes dryer - 3500
- Twenty Gallon Water heater – 2500
- Dishwasher -1800
- Hair dryer - 1500
- Clothes iron - 1400
- Toaster oven -1225
- Vacuum cleaner - 1200
- Portable Heater - 1150
- Toaster -1100
- Coffee maker - 1050
- Microwave oven - 950
- Dehumidifier - 785
- Electric water heater -750
- Sixteen Cubit feet refrigerator - 725
- Aquarium - 700
- Clothes washer - 425
- Stereo radio -350
Lower Levels
- 27 inch flat screen colour television -115
- 36 inch flat screen colour television - 133
- 53 inch flat screen colour television - 155
- 61 inch flat screen colour television - 170
- Clock radio - 10
- Single Electric blanket - 60
- Double Electric blanket - 100
- Ceiling Fans – 120
- Window Fans -160
- Personal computer- 80
- Personal computer screen- 90
- Mobile computer - 50
- 19 inch flat screen colour television- 90
- VCR/DVD = 25
Nobody needs to be in the dark to figure out where the money runs away as far as energy bills are concerned. While it may be fiscally wise to switch of the aquarium, take a minute or two to think about what will become of the fish!
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