List of the Power Consumption of Typical Household Appliances

Can You add wall fan and school air-conditioner as soon as possible. Thank You!
On 17th March 2019

We run our office computers on solar electric, using low-power Portwell motherboards and survived a 13-day mains failure in a sunny period in December 2018. I added two solar panels, and am trying to run my medium size fridge on a sem-cloudy day today, following messenger power company failures. Gaborone, Botswana
By David Young on 16th February 2019

Thanks for the information
By Jack on 25th January 2019

I want to total Power Req On 9 celling fan / 51 Desktop / 51 Lights / 2 ton Ac 2nos how man re Wattas

On 17th January 2019

Now there are 12 volt appliances like 12v fridge, 12v freezer, 12v kettle, 12v hot plate stove, 12v dry iron with spray, 12v plasma TV (rechargeable), 12v sound systems (rechargeable), 12v hair dryer, 12v hair straightener, 12v led bulbs and security lights etc which avoids the use of an inverter. The inverter requires it's own power to run before it steps up power to run 220v appliances and has limitations depending how many watts the inverter is.
By Austin Menzi Moyo Snr on 27th December 2018

Hi, can you give an example (make & model) of a water purifier please?
By Daft Logic on 19th December 2018

can you add a water purifier please
thanks

On 18th December 2018

Thanks for the feedback matilda. We are looking to add more and even a form to allow others to request to add/modify entires.
By Daft Logic on 18th October 2018

could you please add some more appiance im curiouse about a lot ;)
By matilda on 16th October 2018

Hi Brunis, do you have any examples? We are keen to reduce mistakes.
By Daft Logic on 3rd October 2018

I found your numbers outrageously high, i was looking for a date to confirm it was old non standards compliant equipment.
By Brunis on 3rd October 2018

Thank You. I found it helpful
On 7th September 2018

thank you

On 10th August 2018

Awesome! Thank you so much I have just received an 800$ power bill I have something to show my husband!!!!!!!
By JEWELZ on 12th July 2018

Inverter kitna watt consume karta hai
By Bhushan on 5th July 2018

Gizzmo, it applies to appliances no mater where they are.
By Daft Logic on 20th June 2018

Is this chart for use with UK appliance's

Gizmo on 20th June 2018
By Gizzmo on 20th June 2018

Found it very usefull when buying my first Portable Inverter generator, which will allow me to power all of my home Observatory electrical equipment
By Green Dragon { U.K. } on 10th June 2018

Water Dispenser has been added
By Daft Logic on 13th April 2018

What about water dispenser
By Pradeep Joshi on 12th April 2018

this house doesn't have fridge

By aa on 13th March 2018

Do Ecg officers delete previous readings from the meter before reading current one or they continue from the previous month and subtract the current one from it? I want to know please.
On 16th January 2018

Thankyou for this Site it has been a help.
In the last year I upgraded my appliances etc cut down standbys and total power.Just 2years ago switched all house lights from 24w Energy saver to 8/10 w LED which cut the yearly power 7818 KWH to 6943KWH just on changing over to LED Lights. I have used the Clever watts meter to determine individual useage of appliances
Then upgraded appliances and in last year from 6943KWH to an unbelievable 2863KWH.There have been improvements in Appliances over the year.
The Major was changing the Immersion water heater (3300Watts) to an inverter water heater (1250Watts) Taking the waterheating Useage from 3509 to 1287 (saving2222KWH) for the year.An older LCD38 in TV (Useage 236w and Standby 17w) to LG 49in TV HD(Not UHD) 38w and standby 1W at average 5hrs a day from 548KWH to 78KWH per year saving 1470KWH, An old 1990s fridge to samsung INVERTER FRIDGE similar size From 1600w per day to 492w (That is from 584KWH to 182KWH per year saving . Standby for microwave 4w. I went through and put items on standbys on two surge boards , ones that could be turned off and ones that needed to stay all the time eg Broadband Fibre.All these appliances have a pay back time of about 10years each before the power savings equal the cost.There are still opportunies for further reductions as we have an old air conditioner efficiency of 2.70 whereas newest ones can have a COF near 5.Even the inverter water heater further savings are being made by having a timer on it saving 17hours a day of the 19w standby power.At present we are saving 4955 KWH per year before LED and without a solar panel in sight.There were other small improvement, I had a fan heater for a small room in winter 2400W now use a $10 400W Halogen heater instead.Appliances have changed since the data collected in 2008
By Papa2towa on 6th January 2018

Computers can use much more power. My personal PC has drawn up to 600W from the wall, and I know some who have seen it go to 1000W .
By Will on 19th December 2017

Watts are watts . 100 watts used for 1 hour is 100 watt hour or 0.1 kilowatt hours. For 1 day...multiply by 24 hours...
Equals 2.4 kilowatts.
On 19th November 2017

The unit is not watt per hour, its watt hour where 1kwh is one unit as mesured by the electricity distribution companies, so it can be used to calculate how much expenditure an appliance will cause.
On 19th October 2017

How much should a land lord charge per point
By snit on 14th October 2017

Will a good quality 1100W inverter supported by two 8D AGM batteries handle the startup and operating draw of the typical American made upright refrigerator having the Energy Star rating?
By A Andrews on 9th October 2017

Hi Pete. This is not a professional opinion, but it seems solar panel inverters do have a 'no load consumption'. This can be up to 30W, so if it is on 24hours per day, this is 720 Wh

In terms of wear and tear or any other adverse effects to switching it on and off ... not sure, perhaps you can ask the manufacturer.

Some models have a sleep mode to switch to a low power mode when there is no load detected.

By Daft Logic on 9th October 2017

I have Solar Panels that use an invertor, This is warm 24/7. Any idea how much it uses at night and is it worth switching it off from dusk to dawn or would this cause wear & tear?
By Pete E on 9th October 2017

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