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can you differentiate between what the tub is using and the rest of your house?
I swear that the blanket makes a difference. I love that you have TED and are monitoring your electric usage.. can you differentiate between what the tub is using and the rest of your house?
Keep us posted as to the difference you notice with the blanket and new cover. I know it is so difficult to accurately determine the savings because the outside temperatures..etc, but in my mind (which isn't saying much..lol), you should notice a difference.
Quote from: Bonibelle on March 04, 2012, 10:51:38 amKeep us posted as to the difference you notice with the blanket and new cover. I know it is so difficult to accurately determine the savings because the outside temperatures..etc, but in my mind (which isn't saying much..lol), you should notice a difference. OK - so after 1 entire week, and a cold snap, a new cover officially saved me on average 12.5 kWh per day. The day after I installed it our kWh dropped from 72 per day to ~ 45. Back of napkin savings is $3.41. IN ONE DAY...See the chart I uploaded to flickr below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35196617@N00/6971727537/lightbox/
Quote from: pkillur on March 11, 2012, 03:19:46 amQuote from: Bonibelle on March 04, 2012, 10:51:38 amKeep us posted as to the difference you notice with the blanket and new cover. I know it is so difficult to accurately determine the savings because the outside temperatures..etc, but in my mind (which isn't saying much..lol), you should notice a difference. OK - so after 1 entire week, and a cold snap, a new cover officially saved me on average 12.5 kWh per day. The day after I installed it our kWh dropped from 72 per day to ~ 45. Back of napkin savings is $3.41. IN ONE DAY...See the chart I uploaded to flickr below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35196617@N00/6971727537/lightbox/$3.41 a day comes to $102.30 a month. That seems a little unrealistic. Not many of us have tubs that consume that much electricitry. If I turned mine off, my bill wouldn't drop $50/monthy.
Quote from: pkillur on March 11, 2012, 03:19:46 amQuote from: Bonibelle on March 04, 2012, 10:51:38 amKeep us posted as to the difference you notice with the blanket and new cover. I know it is so difficult to accurately determine the savings because the outside temperatures..etc, but in my mind (which isn't saying much..lol), you should notice a difference. OK - so after 1 entire week, and a cold snap, a new cover officially saved me on average 12.5 kWh per day. The day after I installed it our kWh dropped from 72 per day to ~ 45. Back of napkin savings is $3.41. IN ONE DAY...See the chart I uploaded to flickr below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35196617@N00/6971727537/lightbox/$3.41 per day would be nice, but its very unrealistic imo...a lot depends on kw/h and I didn't see anywhere where you mentioned what you were paying. I'm monitoring a 500gal. HotSpring Vista right now and to even accrue that much in one day I would need to run both pumps 2 - 2.5hp on high and turn all the lights and run in that way for nearly 7 hours based on 8cents per kw/h, so its kind of hard to imagine you are saving that much per day unless your electricity rate is sky high. btw I use an OWL wireless monitor hooked directly up to the spa breaker..its a handy little thing
Quote from: TwinCitiesHotSpring on March 11, 2012, 01:11:35 pmQuote from: pkillur on March 11, 2012, 03:19:46 amQuote from: Bonibelle on March 04, 2012, 10:51:38 amKeep us posted as to the difference you notice with the blanket and new cover. I know it is so difficult to accurately determine the savings because the outside temperatures..etc, but in my mind (which isn't saying much..lol), you should notice a difference. OK - so after 1 entire week, and a cold snap, a new cover officially saved me on average 12.5 kWh per day. The day after I installed it our kWh dropped from 72 per day to ~ 45. Back of napkin savings is $3.41. IN ONE DAY...See the chart I uploaded to flickr below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35196617@N00/6971727537/lightbox/$3.41 per day would be nice, but its very unrealistic imo...a lot depends on kw/h and I didn't see anywhere where you mentioned what you were paying. I'm monitoring a 500gal. HotSpring Vista right now and to even accrue that much in one day I would need to run both pumps 2 - 2.5hp on high and turn all the lights and run in that way for nearly 7 hours based on 8cents per kw/h, so its kind of hard to imagine you are saving that much per day unless your electricity rate is sky high. btw I use an OWL wireless monitor hooked directly up to the spa breaker..its a handy little thing"Yeah, it seems a bit extreme. However, the average drop has been 12.5 kWh per day, which is realistically 12.5 * 30 (ish) * .11, which is realistically like 41.25 per month. I'm curious how accurate the TED 5k is compared to my meter. Will keep everyone posted. Regardless of whether it's a buck a day or 3, this thing will pay for itself in a year if these rates hold up..."I'm suspecting since we're having 70+ degrees the savings will drop a bit - I will keep everyone posted. Regardless, even if it's nothing to little in the summer, quite positive I'll save money in the winter. Hopefully bold and red helped out - but I'm paying 11 cents per kWh