How not to save on electricity?

The most inappropriate ways to save electricity.

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There are many ways to save electricity. It can be achieved both honest and not very honest ways. In this article we will consider what the most effective ways to save, and how to save is not worth it.

Favorable ways to save electricity

Now some kind of rampant fashion for the purchase of special energy-saving light bulbs has begun. Is it really so effective? In fact, such a bulb consumes 85% of energy less than an ordinary incandescent lamp, but its cost is about 10 times more.

Accordingly, this kind of light bulbs and the timing of their payback depend on how often you use light in your apartment. If you really have many rooms, a three -room apartment or a large house, as well as a large family, where there are a lot of people, then of course, it makes sense to purchase such bulbs. They are really able to save a decent amount of electricity. This is one of the profitable ways to save.

You can save on the meters that work according to a specific system. That is, counters that record the amount of kilowatts at different times of the day. Indeed, now in Russia in many cities there is a system that at night electricity costs about 3 times cheaper than during the day. Therefore, if you really work from morning to evening, come home quite late, and use electrical appliances only at night, then it makes sense to put such a counter. Its cost along with the installation will cost you about 6,000 rubles. If you really use electricity almost all the time exclusively at night, then such a counter will pay off in about two years.

Savings make sense only if in the daytime there is no one at home, which happens extremely rarely. It is especially not advisable to install such counters for families who have small children, and they use light almost all the time in order to warm up food and wash things. Because with a small child, the number of washes per week increases significantly. Some families erase almost every day. Accordingly, such a counter can cause losses and vice versa overpayment for electricity, due to the fact that a huge amount of electricity will be spent during the day. In this case, the point of setting the counter does not make sense.

How not to save on electricity?

There are many interesting ways to save.

Acquisition of technology A and A+

The use of technology that saves electricity. Simply put, this is a class A and A+, A ++, A +++. It consumes much less energy, helps to save. But here another question arises, does it make sense to purchase such a technique if your old works perfectly and has never broken? In this case, you can make simple calculations and calculate that the refrigerator payback, which costs about 35,000 rubles, will be 30 years.

Accordingly, if your old refrigerator works well, despite the fact that it is not economical, and belongs to class B, there is nothing wrong. Buying a refrigerator or a new washing machine, only because you want to save is pointless. Because the payback period of these devices is quite large due to their high cost.

Replacing wiring

Many people believe that electricity can be saved by replacing aluminum wiring with copper. Indeed, it is believed that in aluminum wiring there is a huge amount of electricity losses that are spent on the resistance of the wiring itself, and by installing copper wiring, you can save. In fact, in order to change the wiring, you will have to spend a huge amount of money. Because the copper wire is expensive, while you will have to pay funds for laying the wires themselves, which is very expensive. Next, it will be necessary to close the strokes, as well as the channels in the walls, after laying the wires. As a result, everything pours a huge amount.

Therefore, if you have good aluminum wiring, which works well, you should not change it. Copper wiring will help to save electricity, but its cost is so high that it will pay for itself in 100 years.

The replacement makes sense only if you regularly come across the fact that the machines are often knocked out, the network is overloaded. The power of aluminum wiring is simply not enough due to the fact that you have a huge number of electrical appliances in your house. In this case, you need to really change the wiring in order to avoid a fire or emergency.

Motion sensors

Another way to save electricity is the installation of traffic sensors in apartments. It is almost useless to install such sensors inside the room, because their cost is quite high, not very efficiency. A person can independently turn on and turn off the supply of light to the light bulb with the same difficulty. Therefore, there is no point in installing sensors inside apartments. As for the site near a private house or near your entrance, it really makes sense to install a motion sensor.

This is due to the fact that the lamps that are installed outside the room are very powerful, consume a huge amount of electricity. Accordingly, the installation of the motion sensor will help save a decent amount of money, and this sensor will pay off in less than a year of work.

Installation of a machine gun

There is another interesting way of saving that few know about. The fact is that even in passive mode, a TV or a computer, as well as a printer that are constantly included on the network, but do not work, spend a small amount of energy. For the year, a rather impressive amount is obtained. Therefore, if you leave the apartment, but do not turn off these devices from the outlet, then there is some small waste of electricity. To avoid this and save money, we recommend that you write down devices from a separate machine.

When leaving the apartment, just turn it off so as not to run around the room and not pull out all the electrical appliances from the outlet. Do not forget to leave the refrigerator, as well as a gas double -circuit boiler, which is engaged in heating the room. These devices should be included all the time.

Theft of electricity

And of course, one cannot help but recall the ways that a huge number of people resort to, these are attempts to deceive energy consumption. They are trying to install magnets or some jumper, so that part of the electricity is not taken into account. Energostov service checks are carried out quite often. You will have to face such checks. If they find that there really are jumpers or a device that unwinds electricity in the apartment, you will have to pay a huge fine. Perhaps they will start a lawsuit, so we do not recommend saving in this way.

The inspection energy consumption has special devices and devices that fix the jumpers, and can also detect magnetic devices that unwind electricity. In addition, any intervention inside the meter can also be easily detected if it is handed over to a special commission. What often happens when the user is suspected of stealing electricity.

As you can see, not all ways to save electricity are good and really help to spend their money profitably. The best option for saving is the acquisition of energy -saving lamps, and the installation of special three -phase meters that record the expenses of electricity at different times of the day.

But this method is appropriate if no one lives in the apartment besides you, and you return quite late. All electricity that is spent per day falls at night. Also, a good option is the installation of special machine guns so that printers, TVs, as well as computers in sleep mode, are constantly not working. This will help save about 3,000 rubles per year.