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Mango_In_Me_Hole t1_j01vnwq wrote

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

The watts of the kettle don’t really matter. There is very little power waste in a kettle, so a low-power kettle will still use the same amount of energy as a high-power kettle. The only difference is the amount of time it takes to boil the water.

A litre of water generally takes about 100Wh to boil. In my family, the kettle could easily be used 4-5 times in one day, adding up to around 500Wh per day.

Also 200W is insane for a modern TV. My 50in LED TV only uses about 60W. I’d have to watch tv for more than 8 hours per day for it to use as much energy as the kettle. And in my case, it’s only turned on for about 3 hours per day.

Even if the kettle was only used four times per day, it would still consume more than twice the electricity of my TV.

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diacewrb OP t1_j01wd9z wrote

A lot of people still have and use older less efficient flat panels that aren't LED backlit and some older folk still have have their CRTs.

A TV isn't like a smartphone where you upgrade every year or 2 then keep the old one in the back of a drawer somewhere. Getting rid of you old TV for a newer one when it still works isn't really a consideration for many folk.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_j0307ov wrote

TV power consumption has been going back up. Because almost everyone now tends to upsize to a bigger tv when they upgrade. A 65” LCD probably drinks more power than your 42” cold cathode backlit LCD or your 30” CRT.

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Bgrngod t1_j0356oh wrote

My 65" OLED pulls around 45w when the screen is all black and usually around 150-250w when playing games on it.

I don't have a CRT around anymore to test, but did have one about a decade ago. It was a 32" and I don't remember it pulling as much as my OLED does now.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_j039oig wrote

Because an OLED has REAL black. It’s off. This is the correct way to display video.

LCD is awful. Once you see that grey bleeding into black it’s all you can see.

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Bgrngod t1_j03ra0i wrote

Yup. This is a big reason I waited as long as I did to get a 4k TV. I wanted that shit to look amazing. And it does!

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lemlurker t1_j01vycv wrote

But that's you tho. Everyone's usage is different. I pretty much only use the kettle to boil water for cooking so max once a day. And I was going off a bright large TV that are generally less energy efficient but 100-200w covers most. It's all about usage and use times.

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Mango_In_Me_Hole t1_j01xet9 wrote

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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