Automatic Garage Door Openers + phantom load
Hi everyone.
I was looking at a thread about automatic garage door openers. Keeping in mind that "if it has a remote, it's always on", I wondered how much power my garage door opener uses while just sitting there - not opening the door and not having a light on.
Fortunately, mine is plugged in to an outlet right next to it, so it was very simple to plug in to a Kill-a-watt meter and check.
Turns out it uses three watts while just sitting there. Not that that's a terrible amount of energy, but it's 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.
It does come out to $3.38 per year on electricity used. The worst part is that my garage generally is not used for cars, but as workshop and storage space - meaning that I don't use the remote. Still, there is no man door, so the automatic garage door is the only way in and out.
Even if I turned off the automatic opener and popped the emergency handle to put it into "manual" mode - there's no handle on the door to get a grip on. *sigh*.
Anyways, I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has tested how much phantom load their garage door opener creates. Have you? How much?
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