Isn't this the same Prepper on another thread who claims he has everything planned out? Silly things like a T-105 will last 5 years in storage with his magic secret electrolyte?
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(Or you successfully trolled me and got me to look for what thread you were talking about.)Comment
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A couple decades ago, I could come home, and the meter disc was stationary. That when
the frige or furnace weren't cycling. After I got settled here, that disc was just sailing around,
never below 300W. After a year or so I got the min down to 60W. If you are really running
400W, it would be good to know exactly what it is (a hundred small things here). Bruce Roe
So I got on DTE's (detroit edison) website and found something called an "energy bridge".. its a box you plug into the wall and set within 15 feet of your utility meter.. it connects to the meter via bluetooth and then connects to your home network via wifi (or I think I can use an ethernet cable if I want).. The energy bridge will give you real time power usage stats, graphs, charts, and allow me to set alarms for energy usage. Best part is that DTE will send it to me for free.. which worries me a bit.. what are they getting out of it? I'll have to go into my firewall and block the energy bridge's IP address from accessing the gateway so it can't communicate out of my network.
We have three PC computers that are almost always on.. Mine alone has three 27 inch monitors.. (I'm an engineer and I design stuff for a living).. My wife has a 25" and my 4 year old is always on her computer doing math and spelling stuff and learning about atoms.. (she's going to be a geek like daddy!).. Then there's the two dozen or so wall transformers for cell phone chargers, firewall, modem, smoke alarms, powered pc speakers, ethernet switches, laser printer, two refrigerators, two freezers (three during hunting season).. ceiling fans, television, basement dehumidifier, water softener, and a powered anode in my water heater... YIKES!! I think 400 watts isn't so bad with all that crap plugged in..
Probably the biggest energy hog is the dehumidifier in the basement.. 785 watts! It turns on and runs for 10 minutes and then turns off for 10 minutes... I'm thinking about installing a cycle timer on its power plug so it turns off for 4 hours and then turns on for two or something. Dehumidifiers are just basically air conditioning units that simply pump the heat back into the house instead of expelling it.. Everything else is the same.. and what I know about air conditioners is that they are horribly inefficient when they first start up and the longer they run, the more efficient they are.. err.. more or less.. there is a plateau.. but its not 10 minutes.
Once I can see the energy coming and going, I'll get real motivated to come up with solutions that save energy without interfering with lifestyle.
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I hope it (energy bridge) doesn't tell them what type of beer you drink. I have just now emailed my power company insider to ask if they have an unadvertised capability like that that I could borrow for a week.Comment
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We have three PC computers that are almost always on.. Mine alone has three 27 inch monitors.. (I'm an engineer and I design stuff for a living).. My wife has a 25" and my 4 year old is always on her computer doing math and spelling stuff and learning about atoms.. (she's going to be a geek like daddy!).. Then there's the two dozen or so wall transformers for cell phone chargers,
for wall transformers. I have found that many of them, particularly the smaller ones are not very efficient. I have taken to using 6 port chargers like this as a bit more efficient and you can charge more than one item.
OutBack FP1 w/ CS6P-250P http://bit.ly/1Sg5VNHComment
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I'm a little lost how meter info would help you with that- without solar you'd get to see your loads alone. With solar you'd see (loads - generated power) that also cloud dependent etc. When I was trying to identify where energy goes I didn't have solar (and I'd disconnect it anyway) and I had to turn off 90% of the MSP breakers to track some of them down. There was recommendation to get a device called KillaWatt or something like that which would allow you to collect consumption of individual loads. I didn't go that far as pump + lights already provided enough improvement and the difficulty increases exponentially with each new optimization as there won't be any 'low hanging fruits' left.Last edited by max2k; 08-17-2017, 11:20 AM.Comment
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at 4 years? I don't think I could read at that age
I'm a little lost how meter info would help you with that- without solar you'd get to see your loads alone. With solar you'd see (loads - generated power) that also cloud dependent etc. When I was trying to identify where energy goes I didn't have solar (and I'd disconnect it anyway) and I had to turn off 90% of the MSP breakers to track some of them down. There was recommendation to get a device called KillaWatt or something like that which would allow you to collect consumption of individual loads. I didn't go that far as pump + lights already provided enough improvement and the difficulty increases exponentially with each new optimization as there won't be any 'low hanging fruits' left.Comment
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they have have over my lessor stuff: Kill-a-Watt deals accurately with power factor; and it can
integrate the energy over time. Bruce RoeComment
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might help to invest in LED monitors.
for wall transformers. I have found that many of them, particularly the smaller ones are not very efficient. I have taken to using 6 port chargers like this as a bit more efficient and you can charge more than one item.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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She can count to 40, do basic addition up to the number of her fingers (lol), and use an abacus to do the higher numbers.. Writes all her letters and numbers, an kill me because I have no idea how, but she's able to find games and stuff on the internet that I never bookmarked for her... She recognizes a hydrogen atom and helium, can count the electrons, knows the nucleus with protons and neutrons... but doesn't quite understand what it all is yet.. conceptual understanding doesn't extend that far at this point.
I'm a little lost how meter info would help you with that- without solar you'd get to see your loads alone. With solar you'd see (loads - generated power) that also cloud dependent etc. When I was trying to identify where energy goes I didn't have solar (and I'd disconnect it anyway) and I had to turn off 90% of the MSP breakers to track some of them down. There was recommendation to get a device called KillaWatt or something like that which would allow you to collect consumption of individual loads. I didn't go that far as pump + lights already provided enough improvement and the difficulty increases exponentially with each new optimization as there won't be any 'low hanging fruits' left.
Let the battle begin...
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She can count to 40, do basic addition up to the number of her fingers (lol), and use an abacus to do the higher numbers.. Writes all her letters and numbers, an kill me because I have no idea how, but she's able to find games and stuff on the internet that I never bookmarked for her... She recognizes a hydrogen atom and helium, can count the electrons, knows the nucleus with
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Off topic but since it's your thread feel free to stop this: are you sure you haven't missed '1' in front of her age ? Not all 14 yo can do all that . I hate to ... on your parade but contrary to popular beliefs such talented kids are more problematic to bring up unless you have good plan for her school education: they need to be constantly challenged to keep their interest and conventional public school fails miserably in that regard . It is designed as 'extended day care' focused mostly on the needs of the least performing students so we get evenly dumb crop at the end. Such kids get quickly bored there leading to all kind of problems and often unable to produce BS results school expects them. Public system kills such bright minds. Private schools have their own issues that's why I say you better have very good plan. One math teacher from a private school once tried to prove to me that comparing 2 numbers with simple fractions one greater than 1 and another less than 1 requires putting them over common denominator first. His claim was that result of comparison: 1 1/3 and 3/5 depends on the way you go about it. I let him work it out to his shame. Math teacher in my own school would lower my mark if I'd go that way missing simpler solution.
It is hard to say if any public school system has kept the quality it once was.Comment
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I don't know if the grammar and high schools where I grew up in NJ are any better or worse then they were back in the 60's & 70's but I feel I got a pretty good enough education that got me accepted into a number of prestigious Engineering colleges.
It is hard to say if any public school system has kept the quality it once was.Comment
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