I'm finding a 40w phantom in the bathroom lights/bedroom lights & plugs circuit. The controller for the fan might be 1w, the Google mini is about 1w, and the various LED switches and digital timers might be another 1w. I've got quite a lot of unaccounted watts to track down.
So far my overall lowest registered consumption is 450 watts. I'll have to start tracking down where all this idle consumption is coming from. I know some of it is office equipment I need to turn off at night, but that couldn't be more than about 100 watts.
This house is driving me crazy with unknown breakers and switches, along with unaccounted for phantoms.
If I can kill 100w of idle/phantom drain, this meter will have paid for itself in the first year.
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Originally Posted by roosterk0031
Door bell transformer?
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Good idea. I checked the doorbell and it still rings despite the suspect breaker being off. Not the doorbell transformer.
Heck, with that much power surging when flipped on, I should be able to locate it in the attic using a clamp on ammeter while my wife flips it on/off.