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theneverfox ,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

IDK, that doesn’t sound healthy.

Life is made up of infinite details. Looking too closely at any of them shouldn’t be done without a reason, that way lies madness

Looking at details makes sense when the data is actionable. If you think “my electric bill is too high” or “I’m worried about my power consumption”, then try living with it a bit hotter/colder. That’s a decision to make on more like a monthly basis, maybe every couple weeks - day to day it’s one of a ton of variables. It’s not useful information outside a spreadsheet

Making that decision on a daily basis sounds like obsession. If you just think it’s interesting, you should probably keep it to yourself (and similar minded people)… If your wife doesn’t want to hear it, you should listen to her

Tell me once, fine, maybe it’s a bit interesting. Do it every day for a week, and my brain starts trying to keep a running estimate. I would get very angry, very quickly, because it would make my life slightly worse moving forward for no benefit

ko4la ,

it shouldn’t be a thing, but it is

jcalais ,

Especially in Europe with exorbitant electricity prices, it’s perfectly normal. The prices just went from like 4 cents per kWh to 40 or even 70 last winter. That made everyone count kWhours really attentively. Now the prices have gone down - in some cases a lot, but the reflex to check prices is still there. A lot of us now have stock-bound contracts, so whatever the current rate for electricity is what we are paying.

That means we all have apps (mine is on my Apple Watch) and whenever the stock price is low we start our saunas, washing machines, ac:s etc. Currently the price is 4 cents per kWh and since the price is determined 24 hours in advance, I can see that the whole day will have similarly cheap electricity.

brutallyhonestcritic ,

NO! That’s a stupid question.

clueless_stoner ,
@clueless_stoner@lemmy.world avatar

No such thing. Please mind your language.

ar0177417 ,
@ar0177417@lemmy.world avatar

Yes

Lazylazycat ,
@Lazylazycat@lemmy.world avatar

It’s probably not healthy but I do this too with heating (UK). I have electric panel heaters that cost £1 an hour to run and all I can think about when they’re on is how much it’s going to cost - over the day, the week, the month - and then I turn them off and get a hot water bottle 😬

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think normal exists

zoe ,

i did that too. i printed the monthly rates table since the unit rate changes depending on the monthly consumption, but also i include the 13% VAT percentage for residential usage, and it adds up to 0.15$/kwh. my ac consumes about 1.2kwh per hour, and i plan running it 20 hours per day for 60 days. women dont like accountability and dont like to admit to consequences. good on you for staying wise and planning everything in advance.

Pat12 ,

women dont like accountability and dont like to admit to consequences.

what the absolute fuck?

ko4la ,

to be fair to OP, I have only seen this done by women, too.

When you have to explain to an adult woman that leaving the heater on max is like opening the faucet in the sink, and leaving the house, maybe it’s not a surprise that it causes her to have a nervous breakdown. (since if she was a rational thinker, she wouldn’t be doing it in the first place)

Still weird that I have never seen this done by a man.

AlecSadler ,

I’d say there’s nothing wrong with it…

…but also what? If I run my A/C 8-12 hours a day for a month the bill is like $20 more, are you in California?

ilovetacos ,
@ilovetacos@lemmy.world avatar

I’m in California and running my AC raises my bill by $200+ a month for a 2 bedroom house.

foggy ,

Those costs arent fixed. You need to account for the outside temp and humidity. And your insulation efficiency.

flipht ,

My energy company app just tells me how much I used per day. So I check it every now and then, but not really that often.

CaspianXI OP ,
@CaspianXI@lemmy.world avatar

I wish my energy company had that sort of an app! I usually have to calculate everything manually using the rates included on the back of each bill I get.

Nonameuser678 ,
@Nonameuser678@aussie.zone avatar

If you lived in Australia calculating this would drive you nuts.

iamthatis ,

Is it okay to do so? Absolutely. Is it common? I’m willing to bet no.

Depending on how you define normal, you have your answer

guyrocket ,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

I went solar a couple of years ago and my power generation and usage are all always tracked and graphed by an online app. Also telling me how much is spend or save. So I crawl up my own ass over electricity usage pretty much every day.

I do think this is much better than the dark ages when I really had almost no idea how much power I used every day.

Vince ,

Went through the same thing. It’s a little game now to try to use less energy than the solar panels are generating. Used to keep my gaming PC on all the time, and watch everything on a giant tv, but now I’m mostly using a tiny laptop. Really helps when you see how much electricity you’re using and how of that you do t really need.

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Not a bad thing. It’s nice to know where your money is going to know if there’s places you could easily save.

Installed an Iotawatt a couple years ago to track power usage of the whole house and individual circuits.

The AC in my living room has used 3.35kwh so far today, and the main plugs circuit that has my server and a portable AC unit on it has used 5.56kwh.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8743d45c-f795-40a9-881f-261d0373bd49.jpeg

entropicshart ,
@entropicshart@lemmy.world avatar

This is awesome! Did you install the censors in the breaker box?

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Yup: there’s a current transformer on each circuit leaving the breaker panel (up to 14 different circuits), one on each of the main feed lines, and then a small plug-in voltage transformer to measure voltage, phase angle, and frequency.

It takes all that data, polling each sensor a few dozen times a second, calculates power usage, stores, and presents it all with the above graphs in a simple little web interface. It can also export that data to more powerful graphing/data analysis solutions, but I’ve been pretty happy with what’s onboard.

You can see the live data too: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e5cd49b3-0cd7-498d-9b42-1e8c9fa994c7.jpeg

(2 phases of a 3 phase apartment supply. Outputs are math output of multiple inputs. Ex: Main_A+Main_C=Total_Power)

The setup inside the breaker panel is something you should hire an electrician for if you aren’t extremely confident and knowledgeable about what you’re looking at. There is a lot of potential to injure yourself or burn your house down, even with all the breakers off.

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