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| Posted: 10:43pm 04 Jun 2018 |
Yes, kWh's with the ranges as above.
Last Bill had the averages at 44 & 7.8kWh.
Current running average is 34.1 & 10.8.
Caught a power thief in the act a few night ago though.
Wandered outside at 4:00am to find the pump running on the Spa tub.
It's normally heated by home made solar & a converted heat pump.
Controlled by a Micro.
It's own controls are fairly primitive, you just cycle thru 3 modes with an air switch.
Default is standby, where it runs the pump & a 1kW heating element when the water needs heating. Temperature is just set on a pot.
As I don't normally used that facility, the pots set at it's minimum.
Turn out, after looking at the logged data, that that minimum setting equates to a temp of about 11.5°C.
So as winter has it, it's been taking it on it's self to cycle on a few nights.
When it hit's that level, it's been running the pump for about an hour & a half, bringing the water back up to 13°.
Only happened on 4 nights, but would have totalled a fair few hours.
Phil.