Electric usage

[hammerman]

I have one of those electric monitors that show how mucg electricity is being used in my home at any one time and i'm a bit concerned with the readings i'm getting.

Now i've just been round and checked what's running and made sure i turned the fridge and freezer off. Apart from a few alarm clocks, the lap top, my fish tank (heaters and lights off but about 80 watts of pumps are being used), The unit says i'm using 0.35 KW...or 350 watts.

I've scratched my head and i can't see for the life of me where i have 350 watts being used. Even with the fish tank taking up 100 watts say, that's still 250 watts not accounted for. take away the lap top and odds and sods here and there and you've probably got another 50 watts so that's 200 unaccounted for.

Any suggestions....i really can't find anything running. I can't turn all the sockets off because it turns the electricity monitor off and i can't see what's running !!!

TIA

[AlBags]

You can turn off the sky box ok .. It will need to reload the prog guide, that's all.
I would NOT turn off a Sky+ box tho.

[hammerman]

So according to that list (link last post, first page), a DVR set top dox uses 36.68 watts of electricity when it's off yet only 29.29 when it's on and recording.

Anyone got any suggestions for that one ?

[Buenchico]

The reason is in the last column. The power consumption indicated for the off' figure is an average for the 4 devices which were tested. The 'on' figure is an average for only 2 devices.

[boxtops]

What about your central heating/hot water boiler, hammerman - you haven't mentioned that in your list, ours is on all the time (if not actually heating water all the time). That's a huge bill you have every month, I only pay about £40 per month for a 4-storey terraced house - are you sure that you don't need to get your meter checked?