How do you know which elettronic appliances impacts more heavily on your elettricity bill? For example a pc, airfryer, rice cooker, air con.
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The amp draw from anything with a heating element is gonna be high, but the one that’s the highest is microwaves.
Amp draws from most things in the house is 0.5 to 1-1.5, but heating elements in tank water heaters, dryers, electric ovens, cooktops, air fryers, kettles is about 6-8 amps, and microwaves are 14 amps. Microwaves need to energize a transformer that sends 4k volts to the magnetron, the thing making the waves that excite the water molecules fast enough to heat the contents in the cavity.
The reason that elements are A. So prevalent in modern appliances and B. So hard on electric bills is because elements are relatively cheap, and how an element heats is by inducing an electrical short along the element, but the element is built to handle the load, so it just gets hotter than shit instead of popping like a filament in a lightbulb.
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