Good morning everyone,
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?
We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).
At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.
How about you?
Best regards
tomtom79 schrieb:
We live deep in the forest; if I want to hear birds, I go out onto the terrace or into the woods. That argument can only come from people who don’t have that. People have become too lazy. If there were a robot that could do their thinking for them, they would buy that too.
But we are off-topic. On the subject: with controlled residential ventilation you consume more electricity.
chewbacca123 schrieb:
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery is great, if only because there are hardly any insects left in the house. No spiders, no mosquitoes… Awesome!
I don’t miss having to open windows. I just go out to the balcony or terrace instead.
I also think a photovoltaic system with an energy storage unit is just really cool. Especially since there is currently a subsidy for energy storage in RLP.
I’m glad we have it all!
That way, you can even run the air conditioning in summer without feeling guilty about high electricity consumption, because the solar panels are generating power at the same time! chewbacca123 schrieb:
Absolutely, as someone with arachnophobia, it was worth the money just for that alone.
The constant fresh air inside the house is just a dream, too. chewbacca123 schrieb:
I love the fresh air feeling inside the house! I would definitely install mechanical ventilation with heat recovery again. After you’ve said the same thing at least three times, everyone understands that you love your mechanical ventilation with heat recovery...
Yes, definitely. For anything boring and/or tedious, like how to load the dishwasher or the order in which to do laundry, etc. Why not? Automation should always allow people to focus on meaningful tasks while machines handle the repetitive ones.
For example, you can spend more time listening to birds on the terrace instead of running around the house and repeating the same hand movement 20 times, only to do it again after 10-15 minutes. And that 4-6 times a day.
By the way, another advantage: you can fill more windowsills with things!
For example, you can spend more time listening to birds on the terrace instead of running around the house and repeating the same hand movement 20 times, only to do it again after 10-15 minutes. And that 4-6 times a day.
By the way, another advantage: you can fill more windowsills with things!
chewbacca1236 Oct 2020 16:41seat88 schrieb:
After you said the same thing at least three times, everyone understood that you love your controlled mechanical ventilation system... Yep! That’s how it is
Tolentino schrieb:
Yes, definitely. For anything that is boring and/or tedious, like how to load the dishwasher, the order in which you do the laundry, and so on.
Why not? Automation should always allow people to focus on meaningful activities while machines handle the repetitive tasks.
That way, you can spend more time listening to birds on the terrace instead of running around the house repeating the same hand motions 20 times, only to have to do the same thing again after 10–15 minutes. And that 4–6 times a day.
By the way, another advantage: you can fill more windowsills with stuff! Wrong, and a good example is GPS navigation. People nowadays don’t know how to get from point A to point B without a GPS...
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