Not much use for measuring the electricity usage of the immersion. Just read the meter to find total usage out. Leaving the immersion on (even just on sink) all of the time is most likely your biggest cost as pointed out earlier. Monitor your meter reading for a few days with it on and then switch it off (or just use it on demand) and see what difference it makes.Perhaps purchase an Electrisave to help monitor ESB usage [broken link removed]
(I'm not associated with them, though use one myself).
The meter supplied by Maplin can be attached to the cable feeding the immersion. It's non-obtrusive, so doesn't require connection to the cable, a sensor simply fits around the cable.
Leo
If that's the case then I stand corrected. I assumed that it was a socket based plug-in unit.The meter supplied by Maplin can be attached to the cable feeding the immersion. It's non-obtrusive, so doesn't require connection to the cable, a sensor simply fits around the cable.
Leo
I doubt that lighting would be the major cost in most people's electricity bill to be honest. The benefit of those bulbs is usually long term. Heavier loads such as heaters, immersions, kitchen appliances etc. will normally be the main part of most people's bill.
I have a 5 x 40 watt lighting fixture, when it's on my baseline hourly cost goes from 2cent/hour to roughly 10cent/hour, so it's effectivly costing me 8cent/hour to run those 5 lights, leave it on for a day and you've used €1.92, so over a 2 month bill period if I didn't turn them off it would cost me €115 or so!
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