sdowney717
Guru
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2016
- Messages
- 2,264
- Location
- United States
- Vessel Name
- Old Glory
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
This latest cold winter, the owner had a high electric bill of $900 for the marina, which I think is low considering all the boats on his free power.
So he tests all the boats on the free power 120 vac plugs of which mine is one of them.
And he says my boat is using too much power, so I agreed to give him an extra $30 for the month.
He says I must be using heaters or something wrong with the boat as his plug in meter was reading up to 1300 watts etc... and he looks at the utility meter and it is spinning fast.
I think he is misinformed. I do not have any heaters running. I do have a 10 cuft frost free fridge and a charger-converter and they are the only thing always on.
So I looked up my fridge energy star rating and in a year uses 301kwh or average annual cost is $41
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/ca/cae7cf21-48ee-41f1-8760-2d35a2a1a9e7.pdf
What I think is he unplugs the boat which turns off the fridge to insert the meter. When he plugs back in with the watt meter inline the fridge can't start since it has a built up head pressure which momentarily spikes his wattmeter. He also says my boat is weird and his meter jumps around a lot.
I can find nothing wrong at all and my own builtin digital meters do not show anything like huge amounts of power being used.
Actually this is making me wonder if I should switch marinas, since if he thinks my boat is sucking power, he won't change his mind and it might be a continual issue.
We did measure the base load with only the charger-converter with his meter at 300 watts which seems reasonable and 600 watts adding in the fridge.
So he tests all the boats on the free power 120 vac plugs of which mine is one of them.
And he says my boat is using too much power, so I agreed to give him an extra $30 for the month.
He says I must be using heaters or something wrong with the boat as his plug in meter was reading up to 1300 watts etc... and he looks at the utility meter and it is spinning fast.
I think he is misinformed. I do not have any heaters running. I do have a 10 cuft frost free fridge and a charger-converter and they are the only thing always on.
So I looked up my fridge energy star rating and in a year uses 301kwh or average annual cost is $41
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/ca/cae7cf21-48ee-41f1-8760-2d35a2a1a9e7.pdf
What I think is he unplugs the boat which turns off the fridge to insert the meter. When he plugs back in with the watt meter inline the fridge can't start since it has a built up head pressure which momentarily spikes his wattmeter. He also says my boat is weird and his meter jumps around a lot.
I can find nothing wrong at all and my own builtin digital meters do not show anything like huge amounts of power being used.
Actually this is making me wonder if I should switch marinas, since if he thinks my boat is sucking power, he won't change his mind and it might be a continual issue.
We did measure the base load with only the charger-converter with his meter at 300 watts which seems reasonable and 600 watts adding in the fridge.