List of the Power Consumption of Typical Household Appliances

This really helped my school project
On 25th September 2016

Very helpful for the project
On 20th September 2016

Interesting information ..!!!
By Mahesh verma on 19th September 2016

very insightful
On 1st September 2016

This is interesting

On 1st September 2016

Just checking power consumption on different appliances and I found this site. Thought it was
interesting.
On 30th August 2016

Very helpful
By Pinninti kranti on 26th August 2016

Thanks so much it will my customers their energy consumption.

By Nsubong Udotai on 19th August 2016

How much time.sir
On 7th August 2016

Hi Skeptical. Thanks for the feedback. There is always room to fine tune the figures on this page. There is often a range of power consumption for devices that do the same thing. I have lowered the lower range of the electric kettle. I see numerous 3k products for sale but agree with your point that there are lower power consuming models. The hair drier figures had been updated on the table in the past but the example in the text did not change in line with this, I've updated figures in the example.
By Daft Logic on 4th August 2016

Some of your wattages seem realistic but a lot don't. Even in your own example of a hair blow dryer in the chart you said 2000 - 2500 watts. In your example of total energy usage you said one kilowatt for a blow dryer. All electric kettles that I have ever seen use 1250 Watts, your chart shows 2000 - 3000 Watts.
By Skeptical on 3rd August 2016

Extremly helpful to calculate solar enrgey required by my house and no of panels required and budgeting,cost saving per month/per year/recovery etc etc
By Arun Malhotra on 31st July 2016

Really informative... It's help me in my daily routine life to save power...
By Vicky.... vl.. on 24th July 2016

Okay, so how do I work out the cost if for instance. .I have 10 globes of 40 watts=400 watt and use them for 8 hours a day and we are currently charged R1.70 per kilowatt from goverment? And my kettle that is 2000 watt and takes 5 minutes to boil? How much does it cost me?
By George on 24th July 2016

This has been helpful in making decide what load is going into my inverter batteries and how I can increase inverter battery time, based on my house load/watts.
Better turning on the standing fan then the ceiling fan, using energy saver 11/18w bulbs than higher rating.
Thanks a lot. Very helful
By Civilian colonel on 19th July 2016

Thanks. Desktop Computer has been updated.
By Daft Logic on 19th July 2016

My Desktop Computer consumes 450watts
On 19th July 2016

The max power output for the Home Air Conditioner has been increased to 4k W
By Daft Logic on 5th July 2016

Thanks. It's very helpful to me.
By Abishek Chendur on 4th July 2016

When you said home air conditioner you must have meant a small window unit air conditioner. Or maybe you only listed the power for the indoor unit. The full power draw for a whole house air conditioner is more like 3000-4000W. Inverter based whole house air conditioner is about right as listed, with a lot of "it depends".
On 2nd July 2016

Thank you very much. Really it very helpful. let me just Title it "Great Answer to Question".
By Matthew, Ukpono on 28th June 2016

very helpful tnx
By aylian on 25th June 2016

Very helpful but a 500W rating for a washing machine? I might suggest you take a reading while the water heater is on. It's a lot morw than 500W!
On 23rd June 2016

This information is really helpful, it meets me at the time I needed it most making it awesome....

Thank you very much
By Awosika Damilola Samuel on 22nd June 2016

thank you !!!
On 21st June 2016

Thanks...was struggling for my physics project about electricity consumption.....the site helped me figure it out !!!
By Aditya on 20th June 2016

thank u for ur information
On 20th June 2016

This is awesome information for economiy in the house and EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
By Nitin on 19th June 2016

thank u
By mahammadsk on 19th June 2016

Its too informative and it helped me in a situation which I thought it would be difficult,but now it has changed.Now its too easy for me and I'm sure that 4 u all projects will be easy...
By Parvathi-19/06/2016 on 19th June 2016

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