chorrylan Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 hi, for those who like to see how much power your various pumps, lights and heaters are consuming; Zazz http://www.zazz.com.au/index.php are selling an MS6115 power consumption meter for $29.80 + $6.90 postage "today". You can get them from jaycar for around that price but for those without ready access to jaycar or who just like instant gratification and spontaneous purchasing the zazz option might be the go (but the product will only be on sale until midnight tonight 01/07/2008) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonie Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks for sharing that with us , I have often wondered how much my tanks are really costing me, now I can find out for sure. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcloughlin2 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 What i tell everyone is, it's not my tanks running the bill up - its the air con! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIMO Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Hang on guys....Is this really a good idea??? I mean, if we can see how much power we are using then so can the wife OR the husband, depending on your situation.... Then it's impossible to blame the air con, or the pool pump or whatever else.....because it's never our fish. haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaholic Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I know how much power my tanks are using: when I get the electricity bill.lol. Isnt isnt hard to work out how much by adding up the wattage used per hour, except for heaters that is, which turn on and off. If my wife new how much - I would have to get rid of some tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaholic Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 funny thing is (NOT!) I just got my electricity bill and it was almost $400 and I have gas heating,gas hot water and gas cooking. Looks like i will need to consolidate some tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chorrylan Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Looks like i will need to consolidate some tanks. That's exactly where one of those dooveys comes in handy; you can confirm beforehand what the saving would be from consolidation to avoid disappointing things like consolidating and finding the bill hardly changes. You might get lucky and work out that switching a light off or using lower power tubes or using a more efficient pump saves you from having to lose a tank. I was a little surprised to find the variance between labelled power consumption and actual consumption. For smaller devices they were often using less than the declared consumption and pumps in particular tended to use more than their rated consumption (one pump in particular that I hadn't paid much attention to was consuming about 100 watts more than I thought ... that adds up). Putting it on something like a heater allows you to work out how much it really consumes over say a week instead of having to guesstimate how much of the time it is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmowens Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 just bought one of these from jaycar for $39.95. highly recommended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaholic Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I'm convinced!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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