Jeff Lyford

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Energy

Use an Energy Meter

I will use an energy meter to monitor my energy use and identify opportunities to save power.

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Energy

Consider Switching to an Electric Vehicle

Research or test drive an electric car or bike.

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Energy

Online Energy Audit

I will complete an online energy audit of my home, office, or dorm room and identify my next steps for saving energy.

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Simplicity

De-Clutter my Home

I will de-clutter, clean, and donate or recycle unneeded items in my home.

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Search for Vampires

I want to do an audit of my home to look for Vampire ("phantom") power use - I know that I leave a lot of little devices on and when they are added up for 24x7 they really use a lot of power! My goal is to find and fix one vampire device each day.

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Jeff Lyford 10/23/2016 11:18 PM

One of my challenges is to track down "vampire" power use in my home - a good Halloween season adventure! This is power that doesn't appear is on - for example a charger or device controlled by a remote that is not really totally off. In my office tonight I hooked up a "Kill-a-Watt" meter (an inexpensive power meter) to check on my stereo components (old TV, DVD, old VCR) which have been on for a quite a few years. It turns out there was a draw of 28 watts. 28 x 24hrs = 684 watt hours a day or 20 KWHr per month. At our power rate of $.0845 that's $20.40 a year!
I'm using garlic on this Vampire an uplugging!

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Jeff Lyford 10/20/2016 12:27 AM

In trying to find "vampire" power use, our basement tv and old dvd player were still connected. I added a power strip and turned it off. Now when we rarely want to use this old tv, we'll just turn on the power strip. 4 vampire devices and their power sucking vanquished!

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