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| Thread ID: 127463 | 2012-10-23 23:00:00 | Genesis HomeIQ trial | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1308364 | 2012-10-23 23:00:00 | Anyone here signed up for this? I got my kit yesterday, set it up this morning - all seems to work, but I still have to wait for a tech to install a gizmo that interrogates the meter and feeds back to the system. For those who don't know, it is supposed to give you the opportunity to monitor and possibly optimise your power usage. The kit consists of a gateway that plugs into your router, plus two 6-socket power strips and two single plugs, plus an LCD display unit. The power strips talk to the gateway, and you control everything through a phone app or webpage. There's a setup process where the system gets you to identify everything you've plugged in. Eventually you can see the power usage of each individual item. The trial runs for 6 months. What happens at the end of it I don't know. My initial reaction is that the eventual kit is not going to be cheap, and you will have to be saving a lot of power to pay for it. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308365 | 2012-10-23 23:30:00 | Cool, I want one :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1308366 | 2012-10-23 23:56:00 | Cool, I want one :DCool-ish is my feeling atm - after 1 day :) | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308367 | 2012-10-24 06:06:00 | Geeks! Or do you think it'll be a hit? | ellpow (16400) | ||
| 1308368 | 2012-10-24 06:19:00 | Be interesting to see what appliance(s) contribute the most to your power bill. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1308369 | 2012-10-24 06:41:00 | Do you have a link to their website? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1308370 | 2012-10-24 07:27:00 | Do you have a link to their website?AFAIK the only way to get to it is if you are a Genesis customer and are signed up for the trial. You reach the monitoring app via your account page. I doubt they are taking on any more, as I signed up months ago, and presumably they set it going once they had the quota. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308371 | 2012-10-24 07:55:00 | Appliances contributing most to bill: 1. Electric heaters (since you have these on for a few hours at a time) 2. Hot water cylinders (ditto - 9.5kWh to heat 180 kitres of water from cold to 60 degC) 3. Other forms of space heating/cooling (reverse cycle heat pumps etc) 4. Beer fridge (especially of it's an older fridge "relegated" to beer duty) 5. Water pumps 6. Everything else ellpow (Elliston Power Consultants Ltd) |
ellpow (16400) | ||
| 1308372 | 2012-10-24 09:00:00 | Appliances contributing most to bill: 1. Electric heaters (since you have these on for a few hours at a time) 2. Hot water cylinders (ditto - 9.5kWh to heat 180 kitres of water from cold to 60 degC) 3. Other forms of space heating/cooling (reverse cycle heat pumps etc) 4. Beer fridge (especially of it's an older fridge "relegated" to beer duty) 5. Water pumps 6. Everything else ellpow (Elliston Power Consultants Ltd) You left out one of the worst. Clothes spin dryer. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1308373 | 2012-10-24 09:43:00 | It ain't - about 25c to 35c a load even at the power price I pay as a low user (but i don't put the clothes in straight from the washing machine). I measure everything with the Power Usage Meters I sell. My advice: use the clothes dryer if you need to. But try to hang the clothes outside to air a bit beforehand - any air-drying is better than none from power usage point of view (leaving aside other benefits). |
ellpow (16400) | ||
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