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Mango_In_Me_Hole t1_j01xet9 wrote

Reply to comment by lemlurker in Does a kettle use more electricity than a TV? How much power your gadgets use by diacewrb

Right but this is an article from The Guardian comparing the energy cost of appliances in the UK. People in the UK and Ireland often use their kettled a lot. Multiple times per day.

And LED TVs are pretty much standard now. It’d be hard to find a TV that consumes anywhere close to 200W. 100W is more plausible, but even at that point it’s still wrong to assume that the TV will use more electricity than the kettle in the average UK home.

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lemlurker t1_j01xqmm wrote

My pc monitor alone has a 240w PSU. And it's small. HDR TVs chew power

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salsation t1_j01zji2 wrote

A power supply is rated for more than its intended constant load. Have you measured actual power use?

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what595654 t1_j02mkkl wrote

So? The rating on a power supply has nothing to do with the actual power usage of the device.

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Mango_In_Me_Hole t1_j01ycz7 wrote

https://ecocostsavings.com/tv-wattage/

> On average, modern TVs use 58.6W when on and 1.3W on standby

PC monitors are different.

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LoafyLemon t1_j027g9d wrote

It's not too bad with non-hdr displays.

An LED PC monitor repurposed as a TV screen uses a whooping 9.6-10.6 watts per hour. It's an older 1080p monitor with inefficient (at the time) backlighting.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_j031bnp wrote

I have power monitoring in my house using Home Assistant and a iotawatt. My custom gaming rig (3070/5800x cpu) pulls 600W when I’m gaming. 65” OLED is a couple of hundred watts.

Heat pumps were by far the best power consumption investment. If you have electric resistive heating just bite the bullet and get the heat pump. My 3400 sq ft shop costs less than half to heat when compared with the boiler. And I keep it at 16-19C depending on the time of day. If you live in a cold climate (more than 20 days averaging below -20C) go with a ground source heat pump not a air source model.

Our Dryer remains the elephant in the room. But it’s old and works really good. 6kW of heating power baby. But the new dryers suuuuuuuck right now. They clamped down on the power efficiency rules so the new ones use way less power but have to run twice as long to dry so that is a no go for us. Heat pump dryers are starting to show up but they still suck. They won’t suck in a few years so we are waiting. Right now it’s like ‘early emission controlled carbureted engines’. They still suck.

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