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Hello everyone, I am hoping someone might know the answer.
I have been trying to find the source of a constant power loss of 50W shown on my power monitor (Owl). I started a the consumer unit turning off the household circuits until got a 0.00 reading. The last circuit I turned off supplied the garage. Turning on the garage supply restored the phantom 50W and I thought I had found it. Unfortunately not so, isolating the supply at the garage fuse box didn't reproduce the problem. To cut a long story short whenever I try and track down the loss, it appears to be the last thing I turn off that gives a 0.00 reading. Turning on the offending appliance restores the 50W reading, but this can be several different things, the last one being the freezer (the compressor wasn't running so I wouldn't think it should be consuming any power). Leaving everything off, including the freezer and turning something else on results in the mysterious 50W returning but turning on the freezer doesn't show an increase, I would have expected an extra 50W to then show. Is it a quirk of the monitor, or is it reading something in the household supply?
This is very frustrating, so any suggestions would be welcome. |
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