Shifty
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Just received the latest invoice for our electric. £63-00 for approximately 3 weeks of dehumidifier use, plus the battery charger,
Does this should resonable?
Does this should resonable?
Price of marina shore power!
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ari
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I seem to recall that there are pretty strict rules about what marinas can charge for electric these days, I don't think they are allowed to add any mark up to normal costs. If so, then presumably that simply equates to what you've used.
Shifty
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Yes I seem to recall that was the case but it does seem steep.
Sticky Fingers
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How many kWh have you used? And what does your berthing contract say about elec pricing?
PaulRainbow
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Think you'll find they cannot make a profit on the unit cost, but are allowed to charge a "service fee". We pay £0.26303 pence per unit with no service charge, which is very reasonable. Another local marina charge a £30 per quarter service charge!
Why not ask them for a detailed invoice ?
John_Silver
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Does sound high. On a price cap kWh rate (26p) and with a £3-4 monthly admin fee, my dehumidifier costs around £25 per month to run. (Rising to £80ish with a heater running during the depths of winter) BUT one spring I received a monster bill. Turned out that a neighbour, across the period of around a week, had plugged my metred lead into a jet wash and a polisher before disappearing below, with a bunch of helpers, and an armful of power tools along with an extension lead. The marina office were good enough to share their CCTV footage with my neighbour and ask him if he would care to contribute toward my bill. Which he settled in full.
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Fire99
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Bangor Marina is 36p per kWh which to me is pretty heavy..
GEM43
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This is our November consumption, the cold period (tube heaters set at 5deg C) at the end of the month is self evident. Dessicant dehumidifier set at 65% RH. We’re at 38p / kWh so £26 + service charge.
dj43
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We are in east cowes also just had our monthly invoice unit price 00.2688 per kWh , sounds high , are your battery’s ok,
Mr Googler
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Isle or man is free
Shifty
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We are also in East Cowes and our unit price was the same. We apparently used 237 kWh.
I’m going over the marina tomorrow so will check the reading.
Shifty
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That sounds very reasonable, I’m going to check how much power the dehumidifier draws.
Shifty
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Batteries are fine, although we do have ten of them and I think 2 chargers.
rafiki_
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I’m running fridge/freezer full time, dehumidifier 4 hours/day, and 2 off 650w heaters on thermostats set to come on below 8c, and battery charger. Costs about £10 a week. We are at Haslar, so I would assume similar rates to E Cowes?
Shifty
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That sort of confirms to me something isn’t right.
Momac
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My Meaco dehumidifier has several settings
The lowest ''one drop'' setting is using about 35p per day in electricity on average.
The ''two drop'' setting used up to £2.57 in one day but that reduced to £1.39 the next day. I didn't keep that higher setting up for long.
Needless to say the lowest setting for the dehumidifier is sufficiently dry !. The cost per day does vary depending on the weather and it is affected a little if I have been to the boat which has been on several days.
I have used a little under £20 in electricity in the last month as of today and that's with my visits to the boat and opening the doors so letting outside air in and use of kettle and the diesel heater.
The lowest ''one drop'' setting is using about 35p per day in electricity on average.
The ''two drop'' setting used up to £2.57 in one day but that reduced to £1.39 the next day. I didn't keep that higher setting up for long.
Needless to say the lowest setting for the dehumidifier is sufficiently dry !. The cost per day does vary depending on the weather and it is affected a little if I have been to the boat which has been on several days.
I have used a little under £20 in electricity in the last month as of today and that's with my visits to the boat and opening the doors so letting outside air in and use of kettle and the diesel heater.
Shifty
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Good tip thanks, I have the same so will reduce it and see how it goes.
John_Silver
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Daft question: you haven't got the immersion heater (in the calorifier) powered on, have you? Fag packet maths says 237kW pulled over 21 days = 0.5kWh average draw 24x7...... Which would need something chunky, like a heater, to pull......
Shifty
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Nope, nothing else on, no heaters or fridges.
Scubadoo
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Those Meaco dehumidifier can draw around 650 watts, so best to try a lower setting.
