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Old 15-02-2005, 10:28 PM
Richard Brooks
 
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Jodie wrote:
Have a nice new electrical greenhouse heater. Its set to
automatically start and stop with temperature.
So as to calculate power use and hence cost of greenhouse heating
anyone know of a good inexpensive system of recording the duration
the heater was actually on?
Thanks


Could you not use a cheap paraffin heater for a few days (to keep the cacti
happy in the meantime), measure each days power usage on your meter for
normal usage, then plug your new electric heater in, monitor the power each
day for the same period as without electric heating then take two averages,
without electric heatng and with electric heating ?


Richard.