Power consumption of 101+ typical household appliances

How much energy do you use every day? The easiest answer to this question you will find at the bottom of your electrical bill or by contacting your power company. A typical American household consumes about 9500kwh of power per year that means 26 000w a day or 1100w/hour

If you want to calculate the usage and costs for a new home or summer vacation house you would have to make an assumption based on the electricity usage for the appliance that you are planning to use.

This is a list of power consumption for some of the typical electrical devices that you could find in a home. The wattage that are stated for them are approximate and can vary depending on either model and brand or both. The power usage is stated in wattage meaning that the appliance will consume the stated amount of power if left running for a full hour.

One has to keep in mind that some of the devices on this list will only be used during a very short time and therefore not consume that much electricity even if the hourly wattage is high. An example of such an home appliance can be the microwave often used only a couple of minutes at a time to quickly heat up food and beverages. This would mean that even if the stated 700w is quite a large number you would only be using 5% of that when heating up your dinner for 3 minutes. The total amount of used wattage for the microwave resulting in a low 35w

Another thing is the refrigerator the wattage stated here is the amount of power it draws when running at maximum power. Both refrigerator and fridge will actually automatically try to conserve power by turning itself on and off depending on the interior temperature. That is why, to get an accurate wattage, divide the hours its used by 3. For example if your refrigerator is marked with 300w the actual used up power would be 300/3=100w per hour.

The lighting is not even on the power consumption appliances chart because i think that everyone understands that a 100w lightbulb consumes exactly 100w and a 12w fluorescent tube consumes 12w and so on. If you would like to know more on what light to use when and wattage conversation rates for different types of light bulbs we have a whole article about that.

Living room

Lcd tv	100-250	W
Plasma tv	345	W
Radio	10	W
Satellite dish	30	W
Stereo	60	W
Stereo portable	20	W
Tv box	23	W
Game console generic	50	W
Dvd player	15	W
Wii	45	W
Play station 2	50	W
Tv lcd 45 inch	133	W
Tv led 45 inch	88	W
Tv plasma 45 inch	288	W
Tv lcd 32 inch	55	W
Tv led 32 inch	61	W
Tv plasma 32 inch	119	W
Tv lcd 19 inch	50	W
Tv led 19 inch	50	W
Tv plasma 19 inch	100	W
Cd player	10	W
Amplifier	20-70	W
Television, rear projection	200	W
Tv standby	6	W

Kitchen

Automatic defrost	700	W
Blender	300	W
Broiler	1200-2000	W
Can opener	100	W
Carving knife	100	W
Coffee machine/ espresso machine	1000-1500	W
Coffee maker	800	W
Deep fat fryer	1,448	W
Dishwasher	1200-1500	W
Electric kettle	2000	W
Food blender	300	W
Food mixer	127	W
Frying pan	1200	W
Garbage disposal	445	W
Hot plate	1200	W
Manual defrost	540	W
Microwave	600-1500	W
Oven	2000-3000	W
Popcorn popper	250-1400	W
Roaster	1,333	W
Sink waste disposal	450	W
Slow cooker	200	W
Toaster	800-1500	W
Toaster oven	1000-1500	W
Trash compactor	400	W
Waffle iron	1200	W
Freezer new	135/3=45	W
Freezer old	330/3=110	W
Fridge new	60/3=20	W
Fridge old	115/3=55	W
Clock	1	W

Bedroom

Electric blanket	100-200	W
Heating pad	65	W
Waterbed heater	400	W
Night ligt	25-jan	W
Clock radio	1	W

Bathroom

Curling iron	90	W
Electric shaver	15-20	W
Hair blow dryer	1000-1500	W
Jacuzzi/spa pump	1300	W
Power shower	240	W
Shaver	15	W
Toothbrush	1	W
Water pik	100	W

Office

Computer desktop variant	50-200	W
Laptop	20-50	W
Computer monitor lcd or led	50	W
Mp3 player – recharge	0,25-0,45	W
Printer	100	W
Xbox 360	160	W
Iphone	4	W
Phone cordless	3	W
Printer	5	W
Modem/adsl cable	7	W
Mobile phone	4	W
Router wifi	12-24w	W

Cleaning

Clothes dryer	2000-4000	W
Clothes dryer gas heated	300-400	W
Clothing iron	1100	W
Vacuum cleaner	200-700	W
Washing machine	500	W
Tumbler dryer	3000-5000	W

Gardening and power tools

Band saw	1100	W
Belt sander 3 inch	1000	W
Chain saw	1100	W
Circular saw 7 inch	900	W
Circular saw 8 inch	1400	W
Disc sander 9 inch	1200	W
Drill	250-1000	W
Floor polisher	305	W
Garage door opener	350	W
Hedge trimmer	450	W
Lawnmower	1000-1400	W
Weed eater	500	W
Strimmer	300-400	W

House

Air conditioner 1 room	1100	W
Air conditioner central	5000	W
Dehumidifier	350	W
Humidifier	200-1000	W
Stock tank heater	100	W
Submersible pool pump	400	W
Water heater	2500	W
Water heater with quick recovery	4500	W
Water softener	2	W
Well pump	500-2500	W
Fan attic	370	W
Fan ceiling or circulating	10-80	W
Fan portable	100	W
Fan rollaway	171	W
Fan window	200	W
Furnace blower	300-1000	W
Portable heater	1500	W

And the rest of the household

Heat lamp	250	W
Sewing machine	75-100	W
Sun lamp	279	W
Fan for table	10 to 25	W
Engine block heater	150-1000	W
Car stereo	8	W

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