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Doorbells 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 gu
by Marsymars 1y ago
Doorbells 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.).