Vampire Loads -Keynan-HaydenVampire loads are electricity that your electronics use when they are turned off, but is still light showing. Vampire loads add about $100 to $200 to your annual electric bill. A nickname for vampire loads is "phantom loads". Stoping vampire loads, stops you from spending a lot of money. The typical american home has 20 electrical appliances continued to suck electricity even though they are off. Vampire appliances cost consumers $3 billion a year, or about $200 per household.
* Every device in your house holds about 15% of your electricity use. * Gaming systems like x boxes use about 120 to 150 watts of electricity. But when there off and still plugged in they use about 150 watts of electricity. *To stop vampire loads use an Advance Power Strip. *Don't leave chargers plugged in! *Turn devices and lights off when you leave! |
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Problem: Which item in our houses will have the highest vampire load?
Hypothesis: My hypothesis is a television. Experiment: step 1: Get a kill a watt meter step 2:Find a vampire load step 3:Plug the kill a watts meter into a wall step 4:Press the watts button and plug the cord from the vampire load into the kill a watt meter. step 5:Then you look at how many watts of electricity does it use. Results: TV:2.8 house phone:1.5 clock:0.3 Conclusion: My hypothesis was correct that a television is one of the highest vampire loads because of the cable. So actually cable is part of the reason that you be having vampire loads and high electricity bills. |