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Old 10-24-12, 10:29 PM   #34
strider3700
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Since I'm going to start tracking this I took the time to set up the ted's load profile. It's finicky but a 4.5kw jump should always be the water heater turning on. I set it to a +-10% accuracy. At my original 5kw setting it would pick up when the heater turned on for 1 minute but that was it. It's better now.

Anyway manually counting minutes in the graphs I got 57 minutes of usage. That's 10 minutes standby recovery, 24 minutes for the kids 1/3 full bath and the dish washer, 7 more minutes for the dish washer and 6 minutes for hand washing the pots, 10 minutes for my wifes shower.

That works out to 4.275 kwh or 26 cents at the lowest tier.

I'll be turning the breaker off now.

<edit> of course an hour after the last shower ends and before I turn off the breaker the hotwater heater kicked on for another 4minutes just to mess up my numbers.. 61 minutes total. I'm assuming the cold stratifies as it comes in and takes time for the entire tank to warm up to the right temp </edit>

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