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> How many times a day are you running your dishwasher? At least once, sometimes twice, very rarely 3 times when my wife is doing a lot of baking or making can
by sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
> How many times a day are you running your dishwasher?
At least once, sometimes twice, very rarely 3 times when my wife is doing a lot of baking or making candy.
Google says dishwashers can draw between 1200W and 2400W. Asking the same source puts a doorbell at 10W to 40W. 2 orders of magnitude less. The dishwasher consumes massively more power than a doorbell.
How many times a day is your doorbell ringing? Does your doorbell ring for a couple hours on each press, like the length of a dishwasher cycle?
- timr 1y ago[flagged]
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoYou think improving efficiency of a 1000W+ appliance that runs for 2hrs at a time is not making much difference? Don't know what to tell you on that...
- justinrubek 1y agoI don't think the examples you are giving are taking your argument where you want it to be. Nobody has replaced a microwave with an easy bake oven. They aren't the same thing at all, and nobody is proposing such a thing nor the equivalent anywhere else.
- timr 1y agoMaybe not, but they replaced dishwashers that used to take 1 hour to clean a load with ones that take 4+ hours.
- milkshakes 1y agoexcept, by your own admission, nothing has been replaced? you can still push the quick wash button. the only difference, is that the default choice trades off cleaning time for energy savings. what is your argument against consumers having a choice?
- Marsymars 1y agoDoorbells should actually provide power draw figures. I had to upgrade my doorbell transformer to support two Nest video doorbells, and they run 24/7, so I’d guess that they actually take more aggregate power than the dishwasher that I run once every couple days. Doorbells are an extra pain for consumers to measure power draw for - you can’t easily use a kill-a-watt metre as you have to hardwire them to a low-voltage power source. I don’t want my video resolution capped for energy-draw reasons, but I’d absolutely like to have some specs on typical power draw so that I can adequately compare doorbells.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoI can't find watt info for the Nest wired doorbells, but the battery-powered version of the same comes with a 7.5W charger. Let's round that up to 20W just for the sake of argument, maybe the wired ones draw a lot more. doorbell: 20W * 24hrs = 480Wh dishwasher: 1200W * 2hrs = 2400Wh Your doorbell takes 5 days to use as much power as your dishwasher does in one cycle. 2 doorbells is still 2.5 days. So no, they are not using more aggregate power than your every-other-day dishwasher usage.
- Marsymars 1y ago> dishwasher: 1200W * 2hrs = 2400Wh I don’t expect this is accurate napkin math for my dishwasher. It’s rated in the range of 240 kWh per year for four loads per week, which puts it under 1200 Wh per load - and that’s for for the standard wash cycle, and I use the “Energy Saver” cycle (which does use extra water, but less energy.).