[Noisebridge-discuss] Electricity usage at the space is up UP UP

[Sara Neale]

Could the vending machine be a significant contribution?

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

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>
>    Primary electrical power consumption almost always
> involves heating devices, secondarily motors.
>    My guess is there is more cooking.
>    The laser cutting machine in the "dj booth" is a
> new feature, and if it's much-used could account for
> some increase in power.
>    Is there a new refrigerator or some recently
> developed inefficiencies (e.g. a door is not closing
> properly for some reason)?
>    Are the power tools in the dirty shop being used
> more often?
>
>    It's possible to set up a meter to verify power
> consumption of various branches (e.g., the branches to
> the cooking equipment, laser cutter, dirty shop....
>    Purchasing a reasonable meter would probably cost
> about $100. We'd install it on one branch and leave it
> for a while, then move it to another branch....
>    Either someone buys it (or finds one somewhere)
> or someone proposes this cost at a meeting for a
> consensus (or not).
>
>
>
>
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> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 23:53 -0700, e at eden2.com wrote:
> > I'd guess it's simply reflective of increased use of the space, which has
> to be a good thing.
> >
> > On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:50 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Our electricity usage has been climbing for some time, and it'd be
> > >> good to know why, and how we might lower those costs.  This time last
> > >> year we were average 38.63kWh a day. Now we are running at 71.16kWh.
> > >> [2]
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oh wait: actually those figures don't include both meters: it's
> > > actually an annual shift from 61.63kWh to 107.5kWh -- both metered
> > > amounts have grown, but by different ratios.
> > >
> > > Hold on, let me fiddle around to make that more dramatic. Okay, I've
> > > got it -- our electron devouring has increased by a third!
> > >
> > > d.
> > >
> > >
> > >> So, turn things off! Add suggestions of things to turn off in a long
> > >> thread after this message! Put post-it notes on things, instructing
> > >> people to turn things off in a comradely way!
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