hey guys thanks for tuning in retired at 40 here the average household in America
uses 900 kilowatt hours of energy every month so how much does the harvest right
affect that average I have no clue today we're gonna find out
the way we're gonna measure this is with a kilowatt machine this will tell you
the volts the amps the wattage the Hertz and then it will actually do a running
total of the kilowatt hours from when power was applied to the kilowatt
machine I think I'm going to need 12 hours for the freeze time and 12 hours
for the final dry because the stuff that I'm doing is pretty moist so that should
give us a good idea of pretty much almost the maximum of what you're ever
gonna do we're all started up in the freeze process clock's ticking down
let's go check our meter okay so with just the compressor on five point seven
amps somewhere in there watch is just 390 watts and our kilowatt hours won't
tally up until after the first hour so we'll give this a check I'll come back
here after the first hour and then we'll see where we're at it's been a little
while amps are reading the same Watts are
around the same kilowatt hours 0.56
so I'll come back down when the vacuum pump kicks on I've got a feeling once
that happens the the amperage the wattage all that stuff is gonna go way
up it was gonna wait until the 12 hours was done and the vacuum pump kicked on
but I got thinking the default freeze time is 9 hours for your machine unless
you change it to something else and I'm just at about you can see right here
just at about 9 hours 8 hours and 53 minutes so I wanted to see since that's
the average time I wanted to see what our kilowatts were like right now so our
kilowatt hours are at 2.6 - I did a little research the average kilowatt
hour cost in America is about 12 cents per kilowatt hour so right now we're
somewhere around 30 cents after 8 hours obviously everything else is just about
the same amps dropped a little bit why just dropped a little bit I'm going
to wait till the countdown for the freezing is done in about 3 hours and
I'll come back and check after that 12 hour mark to the pump just turned on it
looks like we're at 12 hours and 3 minutes our amps have now gone to eleven
point three amps why did just 607 kilowatt hours after 12 hours is 3.5 4
well after 32 and a half hours we're finally on the final countdown you can
see it's been going for about 40 minutes now vacuum pressure is 491 we're at
fourteen point seven amps thirteen 1348 watts and our kilowatt hours are twenty
point one two so it's getting up there all right well after our very long 47
hour cycle we ended up with twenty nine point one kilowatt hours on the total
cycle so I'm gonna go run some numbers let's figure out what it's gonna cost us
well I knew this wasn't the most energy-efficient machine but it kind of
did take me by surprise that they cost a little bit more than I thought an
average refrigerator takes about one to two kilowatt hours per day which is
probably your most energy using appliance in your house so if you
compare it to a refrigerator it's actually a lot more inefficient than a
refrigerator but that's only if you are running a cycle constantly you know if
you're only doing a couple cycles a month or even a few cycles a month then
it's probably gonna be just about the same as your refrigerator however if you
look at it that way it could if you if you're running it constantly it could
put a pretty significant increase in your energy bill but there's also a lot
of positives to being able to freeze dry leftovers extra fruits and vegetables
from a garden you're freezing no pun intended a cost of food which can
increase in the future so does it work for your situation?
I don't know you'll have to figure out based on the numbers and see if it does
this is retired at 40 reminding you to live life simple we'll catch you next
time