Washing machine energy usage.
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No disrespect to anyone, but I can’t get my head around the original point.
if the energy consumption is listed as .26kWh is that the total For the programme or is that per hour of the programme?
Intake on board all the comments regarding heating water etc and tumble drying etc.
It is only a washer.
Thanks again.
It's an average wattage per hour.
As said, each hour could be different.
Come back in and I'll try to explain
Depending on how it's written, but almost certainly it's 0.26 kWh (260 watt-hour) for the complete cycle. So average wattage over the cycle of 2.75 hour = 260/2.75 ~ 95 watt. But the wattage will vary over the cycle, higher when the water is being heated.
At say 15p/kWh typical electric cost (but probably soon to rise) 2.6 kWh costs 39p.
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Come back in and I'll try to explain
Depending on how it's written, but almost certainly it's 0.26 kWh (260 watt-hour) for the complete cycle. So average wattage over the cycle of 2.75 hour = 260/2.75 ~ 95 watt. But the wattage will vary over the cycle, higher when the water is being heated.
At say 15p/kWh typical electric cost (but probably soon to rise) 2.6 kWh costs 39p.
Looks like even I screwed up somewhere as well
No, it mean if you pay 10p per Kwh, you will pay for each wash you do 2.6p. 1Kwh is a 1Kw load running continuously for one hour or 60 minutes.
To work out what a typical wash will cost you at each program, multiply the stated Kwh for each, by what ever you pay for one Kwh. It will tell you that cost on your electric bill.
Don't you just love the Internet? 15 answers, most of them for a question you didn't ask...
To directly answer your question, 0.26kWh is the total energy consumed for the programme.
Looks like even I screwed up somewhere as well
you will wake up tomorrow with 40 further posts with contradictory viewsHahaha
Gents, I can now sleep easy tonight.
Thanks for all the input... now let me sleep on what tomorrow’s question will be. Probably something about Global warming.
that is the total for the programme
it is rather low because it is for a 20C wash which is about room temperature, so very little heat
the trouble is they introduce a value that is time related rather than a total value so cannot be transferred from one meaning to an other kwh cannot be transferred without an equation as in hours times value gives your answer
kwh tells you exactly what it represents per hour it cannot have two values
total kw used is what should be used then you divide by the the hours and mins to get an answer
similar to i will pay you £15 an hour so the task takes 3 hours so thats £15 ??
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You've got that completely wrong. kWH is a composite unit of energy and thus factors in both power and time. It is a 'total value', as you put it, and is therefore directly comparable between programmes, manufacturers, energy billing etc and is therefore exactly the unit that the OP is interested in.