I love videos that boil down to "Philips got a new toy and wants to show it off to all of us"

Beware of the confusion between watts (power) and Watts-hour (energy), especially for the dryer

I like how you get boiling water from the tap like some kind of royal, but still have birmingham crack house walls in your kitchen

Oh my god my dad would go crazy if he figured out he could play heroes 3 from his bed

Do not turn your OLED television off at the mains. It uses standby mode to "refresh" the organic pixels.

The reason the microwave uses so much W on the 700W setting is, that it's 700W OUTPUT of this device - but you need more Watt, as you see almost double the amount of Watt, for the device to output 700W. That's because for this device to do this stuff, you also need power to HEAT the spindle that emits this rays.

That "Please don't explode" was so genuine lol

"wait for summer to dry my clothes" Ah yes, that 4 days per year we get for drying.

This is peak on brand content, fucking love it

Regarding phone chargers: if your charger is capable of fast charging then it will only charge at the maximum rate supported by the phone and charger if your phone's battery is almost empty. This is why with a fast charger you can charge from 5% to 50% in no time at all but charging the remaining 50% will take significantly longer. AFAIK this is a fundamental limitation of the current battery technology. Regarding your TV: it's most likely a "smart TV" which means a TV with an integrated computer in it and capable of connecting to the Internet. IMO that is the most likely explanation for its way higher standby power consumption. By comparison the majority of PC monitors are much closer to "dumb" displays even though they are capable of some post-processing. OLED displays consume less power when part of the screen is fully dark. This is because OLED screens can actually turn off individual pixels and that's what allows them to achieve much deeper black colours than LED/LCD monitors. So if you have an OLED screen using dark mode and choosing a mostly dark background will result in power savings. 5:49 - That looks like the most relaxing way to play Heroes III yet, I'm half temped to buy a Steam Deck OLED to replicate that. TDP does not equal power consumption. Steve from Gamers Nexus called it "voodoo mysticism" and it's certainly true for AMD CPUs especially where TDP formula doesn't use power consumption at all. At least in the past it used to be closer in case of Intel CPUs however that's only at base clock speed. If the CPU is boosting then it will use more power than the TDP suggests. Undervolting is definitely worth doing. Not only will it drop your power consumption but it will also reduce your fan noise. As manufacturers become better at getting the most performance out of CPUs and GPUs at stock, overlocking is becoming a lot less worth it as you've shown in the video. Edit: one thing to remember when talking about PC part power consumption is the efficiency because that determines how much power a given part needs to do a specific amount of work (for example rendering a video). This is an area where the Ryzen X3D CPUs shine when running a workload that benefits from its larger L3 cache. IIRC GN started measuring power efficiency starting with their 5800X3D review.

If you have an OLED TV make sure to not unplug it completely, it does refresh cycles to make your TV last longer when turned off so you will get burn in quicker if you do this.

Pure British excellency, from the ISO layout on the keyboard, to the 3 pronged plug .

5:50 Heroes 3 is truly worth every penny of investment

I started this rabbit hole with a few cheap digital meters, then upgraded to smart sockets with 3-decimal precision. Now I have about 25 sockets measuring my devices and it turns out that my desk and my home server both use up about twice as much power as everything else combined, so 4/5th of my house power usage is going to my PC and my server

9:14 One underreported issue with running a high resolution display at high refresh rates is that most GPUs will have to run their memory at relatively high clocks. It won't happen on every setup, but on some you might see a drastic change in idle power consumption when dropping refresh rate or resolution, because you can now run a deeper idle state.

In all my 31 years on this planet I have NEVER seen a *heated drying rack* lol. Interesting video, as always here. Keep it up man :) 🏆

Your frugality is admirable. I wish i could be as dedicated as you

This is the best caboosing. It's literally used when you've stretched the concept in the video to its furthest possible point. Perfection.

An electric heat pump dryer will consume a lot less power than a conventional electric dryer. It's a larger upfront investment and will dry slower than a conventional dryer. But you won't have to install a dryer vent and would still be a massive upgrade over your drying rack.

how do you always drop the content i never knew i needed O.O ngl this is peak content

This is actually very insightful and makes me want to buy one myself because I bet we all severally underestimate and overestimate the power consumption of some things in our houses.

5:59 the chills that ran through me!! don't look at me all pensive like!!

@3:57 if your screen is OLED, it may run anti-burn-in cycles after turning it off.

That boiling tap water is terrifying. The amount of times someone had just turned the hot water off and I turn on the cold water to wash my hands and get a hot surprise... Brits must really love their tea.

A gaming PC nowadays serves double duty, as a gaming machine and a room heater.

5:58 That look was creepy as hell.

god i love how you just have an enthusiasm for life and things

1:00 hypothermia any%

There is a clear reason that plasma TVs never caught on and have been replaced by LED or LCD. The power efficiency is so much better.

3:31 some OLED TV/monitor will perform image cleaning in standby mode so it is not advisable to unplug it after use

I had a look at the AC current harmonics on that NP-C1000M power supply and 10% THDi is not great. Typically this should be below 5% at full load to minimize impact on the grid. Even a more then 10 year old power supply like the ax1200 has only 3% THDi at full load.

For my air drying setup, I just use a normal rack a bit spaced out using Hangers with a fan pointed at it at low setting. The fan has a filter behind it built in and uses around 40 watts. This was so that I didn't need to spend $2.50 per load on a public dryer. But the airflow is enough to decrease the drying time greatly if the clothes is getting proper airflow. The filter is nice since I have a cat, so I'd have it on 24/7 anyways.

The microwave for example is rated for 750W output, so if you're is particularly inefficient that's not too surprising. I've had one of those watt meters for a while, great thing, made me get rid of my cheapeast possible microwave and bought an efficient one.

more than 1 in 10 people that watched the video liked it. That's a very very high amount, you should be proud of your work 👏

I cannot stress how much I enjoyed this video. Thank you so much, now I gonna get my own watt-o-meter.

this video is the philip version of "look at this epic stick i found!" and i'm all here for it

I loved the ending hahaha thank you Philip😂

Watts is the instantaneous power use, Watt-Hours will tell you how much actual energy is used. Your measuring plugin adapter thing very l likely has a function to record watt hours over time, this will give an accurate account of how efficient something is and how much it costs you to do certain tasks

For drying your cloths if you want to save on electricity I suggest using a spin dryer, it has no heat it just spins your cloths for about a minute or two so they're only a little damp instead of fully soaked, really cuts down on the drying time.

This was a really interesting video to watch. Might get mine out of the drawer and start measuring everything!

There are still some power strips, very rare and hard to find nowadays which you used to be able to plug in your pc into the main socket, and when the pc is turned off it would turn off the additional plug sockets (such as other monitors etc), saving you the effort of turning monitors off when they're on standby (not sure if newer smart power strips have this).

I can't believe you didn't get a second watt-meter and stack them together to measure the power consumption of the watt-meter itself

This video made me smile. Thanks for making it :)

Great Video as always!

When charging phone, you'll see highest rates if the battery is low, say below half. As it gets full it will slow down a lot. To see laptop power usage when not plugged in, see if yours can report battery drain rates. On some TVs using power when off, specifically OLED models, they will occasionally run refresh cycles to prevent screen artefacts so will use power for some time after turning off. On the PC, maybe try a lower power limit on the GPU too.

The reason for the fluctuation with your Laptop is that unfornatunally the typical setup for your laptop is that it will draw energy from your Battery first and when the battery drops under 97%, Windows will start the reloading process - then it spikes up until it's back at 100%. Problem: That kills your laptop battery over time, typical "planned obsolescense" case. You have two possible ways to deal with it: One is to take out the battery if you can (unfornatunally you can't with many modern laptops anymore)... Second option, much more intelligent: Go into your Laptop energy settings, go to advance setting and change your charging routines. Change the option, when your Laptop starts charging, when the battery is lower than 50%. And, to give your Laptop battery a longer life time, change the maximum charge to 70-80%, not 100%. then your battery shouldn't wear out anymore, as a. you don't have constant loading spikes and b. you don't as you shouldn't, load to full capacity or even short times above that.

Not the video I wanted, but the one I needed

This is the best content on youtube and idk why i like it so much

I feel personally attacked by the intro because i've wanted one for a while and was even looking at one in a shop the other day. Get out of my head!

And that why everyone goes to AMD for hi-end cpu nowadays. Intel REALLY put too much effort in doing same thing for so long.

Wow the timing is uncanny, I literally just spent the afternoon walking around my parents house with dad pluggin various appliances into a wattmeter to see how much they were drawing, and now I get this video.

Appreciation comment for subtitles! Watched at very low volume with sleeping gf nearby and they helped

i recommend drying your clothes without any heat inputs. it may take a day or two but it doesnt consume any extra energy and dryers are also not good for the clothes

Utility company: wtf is this guy up to

I don’t know why I expected you to try drying your clothes in the microwave, but I did.

I had fun from watching a premiere video. I didn't expect that but as always, good video.

Sorry (You can dry clothing in cold weather) Winter weather in the UK is often too damp to dry clothes effectively. Your laundry dries when water evaporates from your clothing into the surrounding air. There are a few factors involved in drying clothes: Heat Humidity Agitation (movement) Ideally, every laundry day would provide sun (heat), dry air (low humidity) and wind (agitation), but we all know that’s not reality, especially in winter and especially in the UK. It is possible to dry laundry outside on the clothesline in cold weather, however, cold temperatures will make the process much slower. No matter the temperature, a sunny day will usually provide the conditions necessary to eventually get your clothes dry, especially with the addition of wind. Humidity is where things get tricky. For evaporation to occur, the air around your clothes needs to be drier than your clothes themselves: the drier the air, the faster evaporation will occur. Unfortunately, British winters are typically damp and rainy, making the process slower again.

6:00 Phil noooooo, your gonna burn out your eyes Phil!!!

I haven't even started the video, but I know I'm going to enjoy this =)

And that's why I use the steamdeck to download big games. It uses max. 20 Watts, which is 3 times less than my PCs idledrain

Heated drying racks are a thing!? It just dries by itself, you just have to be a little patient. There's really no need to waste power on that.

That's a lot of power

Youre the best! Love your content ❤

In short, the reason why you see unexplainable figures for power consumption for certain devices is that there can be an AC to DC power conversion which needs to be optimized in order for the power supply to be able to deliver the correct amount of power on a moment's notice. Less complex devices can work perfectly fine off of AC Also, some devices can run background maintenance tasks when in standby.

I remember back in the day when computer power usage was compared to one light bulb. That's one incandescent light bulb. Now we have LED bulbs and computers use much more power, so they literally use 50 times more power than a conventional bulb. It's also interesting that you post this video now because I ordered my power meter just last week. I used to have a Kill-A-Watt about ten years ago, which I should have kept. Also, that boiling water tap is terrifying.

try using greaseproof baking paper instead of tin foil in the air fryer

I was the same about the tumble dryer but its such a luxury I cant live without now. 1. ALWAYS do a 2nd highspeed spin on washer 2. Dont bother with super absorbant clothes in the dryer/towels 3. DO however keep a couple of DRY towels in there and put it on the lowest settings. Its an fantastic "hack" RE: 4090, have you considering also undervolting? i here you can massively reduce wattage.

Incredible timing, I was literally telling my mom about this stuff

If you have an OLED screen it will run anti burn-in programs when turned off. I would recommend you keep it plugged in to minimize burn-in. You can also try measuring the kWh used over a much longer period of time. The standby power will drop when the tv is finished with it's anti burn-in program. That said I hate stand-by power and love heroes of might and magic 3 like a normal human. 😛

Perfect timing holy moly

i genuinely need one of these

I've recently done a power consumption comparison on my PC between Windows 11 and Ubuntu. Windows was consistently all over the place when idle, ranging from 135W to 165W. Ubuntu was using "just" 115W. So your laptop might be fine, it's the OS that's causing those power surges because of the badly implemented power management system.

Teevees run screen cycles on standby, and if you want to keep your teevee looking good, you would be best advised to keep the teevee in standby, especially if it is an OLED teevee. Also, get solar panels and perhaps a heat pump to get that hot water for free, and can get combo pumps which can double-up as air conditioners in the summer to keep you cool. If you ask your electrical/power company about this, they will have a special hotline for you to cool...if you excuse my pun, and they are expected to offer fitting and installation services, by law.

thank u for captions

As somebody working in the field of electronic test&measurement, I can tell you, re-testing all your appliances with a high performance powermeter would surprise you probably even more. The measurement frequency and precision of your powermeter does not really paint a good picture of what the devices really use. Many devices (especially with logic boards) draw power in pulses that you usually miss with cheaper meters. The calculation differences can sometimes be off not in percentage, but in magnitude… still very interesting 👍

It uses 42

Fun fact: your brain consumes 20 watts of electricity. Computers consume hundreds of watts, and still cannot match the computational capabilities of your brain. Sure computers can do maths fast, but look at the most advanced AI systems that attempt to rival human intelligence. They use thousands of watts of power, despite having lackluster intelligence; they require gigabytes of training data to grasp concepts we would call simple. Its not about how many watts you're using, its what they're used for.

8:45 Correction: The AM4 Socket doesn't max out near 100W, my R5 1600X consumes roughly 120W at 3,85GHz and it's may rated boost is at 4,0 GHz.

hwinfo exposes watt usage for the full laptop. Maybe minus the tiny stuff like battery inefficency and stuff like that.

Im sorry philip but this video makes it look like your living in a crack den

Bruh using the same unit for power and and energy is cringe

that smile at the end was very Hide the pain Harold.

I adore the way you said "it nom noms big power" lol

This video was fantastic! Moving into my first home soon (with the same crypto complications you had! - thanks for that video by the way!) this is really interesting. I’ll definitely be trying this on all my stuff!

Bruh I would spend all day plugging this into random things around the house

I almost decided not to comment but I havent seen a single comment mentioning this. The microwave read is actually pretty accurate. Its important to know what you are actually measuring. There are 3 types of power you can measure, I will translate directly from german I hope nothing breaks. Rated capacity / active power Reactive power Apparent power What you are measuring is the apparent power, which is the total power. Example: The microwave is rated for 700w A microwave generally has an efficency of around 50%. That means half the power we put in to generate 700w is lost (reactive power). This means we need to put around 1400w into the microwave (apparent power) and this is what you are measuring with that device. That also means that for example your 1000w PSU ran at 5-10% less power than you have measured. It should have an efficency rating if you wanna know exactly.

3:12 fun fact: some display cards consume up to 50W more idling power outputting a still image at 360Hz than at 60Hz

i cannot believe you went with the same case as my own build, i was very cost efficient and this case comes with 2 whole big fans and another at hte back , glad to see u are also the same, it was a bit of a pain to build in tbh, if i was to build again, i would choose a different case.

Enjoyed the video, i did not actually know this was a product.

Beware! Do not disconnect oled tv/monitor from the mains when off. Oleds do panel maintanence periodically when turned off. Also my monitors consume some watts after turnoff, but after 2minutes ot goes to under a watt.

3:45 Anything that is plug in, draws power. Cut the surge protector, but note, even plugged in, the surge protector also draws power

Yes thank you for this Phillip. I’ve been wanting to do this myself but never got to buying the meter. Just mainly wanted to know if my efforts if turning off appliances at the mains every time was worth it. Seems like it is!

very cool video!

I love that Philip has CSGO backsplash in his kitchen. War torn.

highest hairdryer setting be exceeding max US 15 amp circuit power 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

another fun thing is to get a thermal camera and run around the house looking for bright spots, i saw plugged in chargers i cant remember ever using.

This is completely random and I love it

Hey Philip! I can relate to the laptop power consumption! It's something to do with Windows 10 probably being a bloated, buggy mess, as Ubuntu did not have that issue. I was having issues with battery power, where at idle it uses around 10W, but spikes to 40W at random, causing the battery to shut off to protect itself from undervoltage... In Ubuntu 22 it even idles lower! It reaches 4W of power!

Your bed gaming setup is godlike Philip

for TVs if OLED or of the sorts, it may use more power on standby at the start for about ~10 mins as it runs programs to ensure burn-in and other issues do not occur and then turns of into 'proper' standby, I usually just turn off at plug after using unless before bed then turn off, get ready for bed and then turn off to give it some time to run its special maintenance programs.