electric bill
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Yorky
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Are you using the aircon more frequently or is it the additional work that the aircon needs to do to cater for the recent increase in ambient temperatures?
Prakhonchai Nick
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Either way it is consuming electric according to its rated output.
Yorky
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Not quite.
If it's ticking over, it consumes less electricity than when it's struggling to keep the temperature low in higher ambient temperatures.
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Eanto
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In hotter weather the unit has to work longer for the same results. Hence the increased expense. Or just hide the remote, works for me
merlin
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If an aircon unit kicks in to lower the temp just a tad, it will soon switch off, only to switch on again shortly afterwards. Rinse and repeat. Older aircon units use MUCH more electricity at the start of the cycle than they do when they are running normally, so the more frequently they switch on and off, the greater the power consumption. (Condenser units less so.)
Rice
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Case in point to get rid of your old clunker as the new ones do not do that.
Prakhonchai Nick
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Very pleasantly surprised....4,273Baht (last April 5,300Baht)
CO-CO
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Prakhonchai Nick
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On and off
merlin
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Nomad: I'm not usually a visitor to TV's forum, but found this today when searching for unusually high electricity bills...
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/10...ven-times-more-expensive-in-march-than-april/
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/10...ven-times-more-expensive-in-march-than-april/
nomad97
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Trust me, I have done a visual and can find no evidence of any such tap.
nomad97
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Is that a meaningful figure? Did you live in the address to which the bill refers for a full month? From all your travels around the planet, I think you are deserving of my avatar.
CO-CO
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Happy to have your avatar Nomad...... although I would probably opt for another friend's avatar ("The Wanderer").
Yes, very meaningful, I think we were only away for about 3 days in that time.
nomad97
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OMG! You'll soon be a big spender like me. Some 5,700 baht for this past month. It could had been worse had the temperature not backed off a little, even though it has been one of the hottest months I can remember during the past 15 years in Surin.
Rice
Resident Smart Arse
Glad you thought it was bloody hot. Because I thought it was hot and I am from Darwin!
That is saying something I tell you. Some places in the world are hotter but none match for humidity and high temp. My FIL thought he was closer to the sun.
His actual words!
Yorky
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Didn't last long though did it? 37 degC again today.