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Yikes, that seems like a lot to heat one room. Have you considered going to an electric mattress pad? They pull WAY less power than that heater. Then you could put your heater on a timer so it doesn't have to run all night long.
Here is a great example: ElectricMattressPad On the highest setting it only uses 43W vs the oil heater that is using 1000W. If you could just run the oil heater for say 2 hours before you get up, you could save yourself 5.75 kWh per night. For most of us, that is around $0.70 a night. After a year you'd be $255 ahead minus the cost of a mattress pad which is like $50-100.
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It isn't so much a cold bed I have trouble getting out of the warm bed lol
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Yeah, that could definitely help. If that doesn't get you all the way there, I would definitely give the timer a shot though. You should be able to REALLY cut down on the power usage with one. They're really cheap too.
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My house is from the 70's and so is the insulation. Right now I don't have the budget to add insulation so my daily energy consumption is between 20 and 30kwh. I have been doing a few things to reduce that but I have a 13 year old heat pump and 30 year old furnace... I wish I could just park my Jeep in my room at night... 600lb iron block...that sucker will keep you warm for hours!
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11-09-13, 08:23 AM | #85 |
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Weekdays: 70 morning, 60 leave, 68 return, 65 night.
Weekends same but no leave, goes from 70 to 68 @ 9:00am. |
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Low 60s. Helps with losing weight and really gets my PC to perform great.
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11-09-13, 11:41 AM | #87 |
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I have tried 62F for the last month and its a bit cold so I put it up to 64F. With my block house if do temp swings I loose the thermal mass effect
Got my first heating bill this week and had a few questions for people, how does your bill look month to month from Oct- April? I would expect it go up as it gets colder out but by how much? what typical for you? |
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Check out the link in my sig. It goes over my bills... yeah I really need to update it too haha.
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you do need to update it..... any progress on the site being able to help log energy usage? should just be a fuel log modified a bit.....
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We have an energy tracker... its um... still in development and has been for quite some time.
http://ecorenovator.org/forum/forum-...our-input.html
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