CAN A MOBILE HOME BE ENERGY EFFICIENT? // Emporia Vue Home Energy Monitor
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We're a DIY family building our "forever homestead" from 15 acres of raw undeveloped land in Tennessee. All of our content is family friendly and safe for everyone to enjoy.
In today's video we take a deep dive into our single wide mobile home's energy usage and power consumption. We purchased an Emporia Gen 2 Vue whole house energy monitor to track our home's electrical usage and pinpoint areas to reduce our energy bill. This will help us determine our home's energy usage, identify inefficient appliances or circuits, and find ways to lower our monthly power bill to save on energy costs. Let's go!
🔷 VIDEO CHAPTERS 🔷
0:00 - Mobile Homes Aren't Energy Efficient
0:45 - How Can You Tell a Home's Power Usage?
1:07 - Everyone Loves a Coupon!
1:41 - Safety Sally Disclaimer
2:01 - Before You Begin: Considerations & Helpful Tips
3:55 - Emporia Vue Gen 2 Installation in a Mobile Home
6:44 - What Circuits Get Transformer Clamps?
7:19 - Cleaning Up with Cable Management
9:31 - Kit Improvements
11:00 - How It Works: Emporia Vue Home Energy Monitor
11:48 - How to Calculate Watts, Volts or Amps
12:39 - Programming Circuits into the Emporia Vue Home Energy Monitor App
18:20 - Powering On the System
19:03 - Connecting to WiFi, Emporia Cloud and Final App Settings
21:11 - First View of Energy Monitor and Usage
21:54 - Detailed Usage Stats & Comparing Utility Company Data
31:04 - Thoughts After Several Days with Emporia Vue Monitor
32:37 - Our Next Steps on Energy Efficiency
34:16 - Upcoming Projects: Fireplace & Solar!
35:00 - Thanks for Watching!
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That Lectric bill usually hits you right in the family Joules, but I can see you have put in Amp-le time researching this topic. It's Shock-ing how much Lectricity folks use. Watt is going on here? I know, it Hertz alot while you Ion out all the details. Just try to stay calm and don't blow a Fuse. I have faith in you. I know you Conduit.
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Someone is an electrician
Lol! This should win the "best comment " hands down! Good job!
Pretty clever
I love my old mobile home. ❤ mobile home mamas unite!!
If the weather is good and you don't already do this, try hanging out your laundry on a clothes line and cut back using a clothes dryer. If they have non-peak rates that are lower from your power company, consider using the washing machine during that time, some washing machines have timers. Perhaps overtime, invest in insulation so when you do need it to be cool or warm, you don't need to run the mini-split as often, as the insulation will help with this.
I would love to see an update on the usage and cost in a couple months when your weather is at its coldest and again in July/August when your at the hottest.
In the summer we would hang out our clothes, using the air conditioner used enough electricity and that saved a lot of energy to go to cooling the house, I wished I had a clothes line now...mama had a wonderful one, Daddy made her lines by sinking cross ties in the ground with a T across the top, which made her 4 lines to hang clothes on, made of a fairly thick wire, when the weather got warm we would go out there a clean the wire so it wouldn't dirty the clothes....I like the way air dry clothes smell.
Some electric companies charge higher rates during the day. Cheaper rates at night and weekends. Ours is higher 2pm to 7pm Monday threw Friday.
Water heaters are a big energy usage. We shut off the water heater mid morning and turn it back on later afternoon. Our water heater keeps hot water for daily usage without running. And only needs to run for shower times. It will run longer but only a couple times Not on and off during the day and night.
So I love the thought of that kind of control and knowledge
Thank You for sharing.
So wonderful to see you all settled in. I always love when you post a new video.
Why not use a Sotz double heater that you use outside in a metal shed and only run an air line carrying the heat into the house? You burn wood and being contained in the metal shed there is little chance for a house fire. Or you could one of the new wood burning stoves in a small building that controls the air flow to and from the stove and heats the house. It is very efficient burning wood because it gasifies the wood and burns the gasses first.
I have no idea what you're talking about - but glad to see ya'll
nice. One suggestion in the future, get velcro ties instead of zip ties, it makes it easier to adjust your wiring in the future if you say one of those probes burnt out or you wanted to add more or whatever
Edit. On the heating issue. I know its an expense, but check out Lumnah Acres and Northern Seclusion, they have switched to outdoor wood boilers. And I have read that depending on your local regulations, in most states landscape companies have to pay to dispose of trees they cut down now. Finding some local landscapers who will just drop off the cut down trees on your land and you can use them for firewood could be a big savings.
Tying the solar panels to the house will be a real advantage!
Even if noone buys using the coupon - Thank you for reaching out and negotiating a coupon.
WHAT???? No bloopers?????
Well, that was terrific, Sam and Angela! I think you can rest easy in the fact that you're gonna be helping lots and lots of us who buy this unit, install it, and then actually KNOW what's going on with our consumption. Plus, it will put us in a mindset of saving energy. Because the more we save, the more energy there is that can be used by other things and people.
Well done!
Totally wish you were my neighbors. ❤️ Nice to see other pre fab home folks working out all these details and gardening. 🤗
Thanks so much!
Interesting I have a hybrid water heater aka as a Heat Pump. 3 settings regular water heater, combo or heat pump only.
On heat pump setting it uses less then 2 amps, but is also the slowest recovery.
Washing clothes in cold water only saves lots of money.
A few years ago I purchased a meter to capture and recycle my static electricity that all electric creates. It immediately cut my power bill in half I later purchase from Walmart small power saver boxes that plug into an outlet. I purchased 4 of them and saved an additional 69% on my power bill bring a summer peak of about $450.00 a month for a 960 square foot mobile home down to $140.00 which to me was a major win. Just a suggestion for you and your family.
Great video,
A little tip/trick when working on cable management. When adding zip ties, place your first tie and tighten. Now place your second zip tie right next to the first and make sure the zip tie is positioned or oriented exactly like the first and snug it up but not so tight that it won't move. Now you can rotate the second tie back and forth while sliding away from the first, you may need to move wires around a bit. You will notice that the wires will be neatly organized as you slide your tie away from the original. The wires or cables will remain in the same orientation as you do this. Rinse and repeat until you are at the end of your run.
Sam, you made it sound so interesting . It was way over my head but I enjoyed listening to you. Angela is like me…”it sounds good” lol I am so proud for your family and all that you have accomplished together! Blessings to you all.💜
Thank you so much!
@@GreenAcreHomestead you are very welcome. Thank you for sharing your lives with us!
The improvements you have done to your home have cut your A/C requirements by at least 50% new windows/doors that are tight and new insulation everywhere along with the roof-over have buttoned up that 1988 Palm Harbor Single Wide pretty well. Still nice to know where the power use is though. I agree that a timer on the water heater and putting blanket wrapper on it can save real money over the installation cost, and is well worth doing.
That sounds like a great video to do -- gather information on water heater usage over the next few weeks, then make those changes, and see the changes over the following few weeks and report! ;)
Some folks save a lot on water heater by install on off switch...I went from apx. 175 00 per month to 31.00 ... I'm one person , totally electric..great learning curve...I have new fridge..one chest freezer, led lights I do a lot of zone heating / cooling and other things 😶 you might discover advantage of on demand hot water heater.maintaining hot water is very inefficient. I'm also heating water closer to tub / shower area .idea of gas heater in areas for cozy is VERY good I do that also...then heat and cool window units are off or very low setting...I have two units ....three bedroom house ( old house ) . FYI...I'm 77 mow a huge yard with self propelled 170 Honda gas mower and 56 volt battery weed eater...I'm looking to down size for various reasons and what I've learned here GOD willing will serve me well. Love your videos.. believe mini split is way to go 👍...and your sweet family is your greatest blessing. Sam you and Angela are think outside the box folks , exactly what's needed in times we live in. All take care!❤️ BB from somewhere in Louisiana
@@GreenAcreHomestead YES, please. I am looking into a water heater timer, and if you do a video on it, I can put it in. I was surprised to see that they run $75 ish. Looking forward to that video- 🙂
@@bettyboop7738 In reference to the on / off switch for the water heater, when do you turn it on/ off? Thank you for the info above. My elec bill is killing me. I also have window units, they were supposed to be temp, but I really like having them- I pretty much keep them at 78.
@@southerngalcharm4460 southern gal...hot water heater can be turned on APX. Hour before using then turn off ,and run bath or shower... you'll have hot water and because you turn it off before you bath it won't reheat water until needed for next use. This requires a little for thought but it works and makes life in general more affordable. Hope this helps 👍❤️
The only way it could have been prettier is if you braided the cables.
Spinal Tap, Voltron, and a smart home app in the same video - My Saturday is officially complete!
I moved into a 1900sqft double wide that was 6 yrs old and surprised how efficient it is, the inside is cheap, carpets, cabinets, molding, ect but in the middle of Aug. in MO. of 90 plus degree days our total electric home which we keep at 76 degrees, averages $130/mo at .08/ kw. It has 6" wall studs.
Yay! Video we’ve missed you
Sam, I use 2 Emporia Vues in my home, one in the house panel and one in the panel at the pole. I also have solar and love the way it tracks solar input. One thing that I did to reduce my energy usage was to automate the times when my water heater is on or off. I installed a 120v outlet next to my water heater. I then bought a Wyze Smart Outlet and a 120v 2 pole 40A contactor. I plugged the Wyze Smart Outlet into the 120v outlet and then made up a cord to go from the Wyze to the 120V coil of the contactor. The contactor is then put inline with the 240V circuit feeding the water heater. This way when the smart outlet is on, the water heater is getting power. When the smart outlet is off the the water heater does not receive power. I then set up a schedule in the Wyze to turn the smart outlet on at 6 am and off at 8 am, on again at 6 pm and off again at 10 pm, on week days. For the weekends I have the smart outlet come on at 6 am and off again at 10 pm. This prevents those little top off current draws that you see throughout the day and night. Trust me that adds up. You would of course need to set your schedule to suit you but the benefits are real. And this is an inexpensive solution costing less than $50 or so. I have also recently incorporated my Emporias as well as my solar inverters into Home Assistant for even better stats as well as the other benefits of home automation.
Okay.. now that's a crazy awesome solution!!! I need to look into this contactor right away! I think we even have a 120v circuit in the space with our water heater that was an old outlet. It's the end of the line, so I terminated it in a junction box and closed it up. Now it may be of great use! Thanks for this info! Emporia have smart outlets too, so maybe that would be an easy integration with one app vs. wzye. But we also have wyze plugs and cameras, so that's easy, too. :) Thanks!!!!!!
Okay, following up to say I just ordered a contactor and junction box. :) This will be a fun project to do, thank you!!
Let me know how you like it when you get it done.
the one you have outside,,,,,has the weather affected it at all? My ac and water well breaker is on the pole outside,,,,,also the power to my barn is on the pole. Just curious if its working outdoors ok for ya.
You two look so happy and relaxed 😁😘😘
LOL, "Goes to 11". Just make sure not to die in a bizarre gardening accident... :D
I have to get one of these, presently using over 65kWh a day, we just purchased a home 3 miles from one we rented. Our energy usage TRIPLED and I am having a hard time trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Our habits have not changed. I replaced the ancient air conditioner and air handler with a new heat pump and handler two months ago now. I keep the AC at 80 degrees. Still using a large amount of power. Having lived here for a few months now there are obvious signs of past electrical projects. every time I open up a wall or go to replace a device i find some bad electrical work. This will help me identify what circuit or circuits could be the culprits. Thanks for the video!
This tool can actually show you the difference when equipment needs maintenance like cleaning / replace filters and if ac condenser and evaporater need cleaning
Good point! Increased power consumption = problems. :)
Hey guys. Just started watching you two. Love your personalities. I moved from Statesville NC to Northeast Tennessee in 2003 and love it here. You all made a good choice. 🙂 Welcome.
I've used the Emporia Vue for over a year now. It has allowed me to slowly cut usage so that I can eventually go 100% off grid! Also check out the Smart Plugs, they allow you to turn on and off devices remotely or on a timer!
Same, I have mine for two years. The downside is that for the first few months, you keep checking it and trying to see what makes a difference. It’s like being an electricity hypochondriac on WebMD.
We have an electric fireplace that we use all winter long. It’s so nice for the extra heat and ambiance.
Love your home and all the renovations you have made. God bless.
💕Leaving thing’s on standby without switching them off by the plug socket draws electric💕So if you do Not switch these items off whilst you go to sleep or leave the house you’re being charged for it💕
Hey, I enjoyed the background music..... twice I took my earbuds out to hear where the sounds were coming from. I am usually distracted by background music. It was a nice very pleasant touch. Thanks Take care and God Bless
So good to see you today. I've been checking every day to see if you had a video up. I was concerned that maybe someone was sick.
Thanks for your concern. :) Not sick per say, but my foot has kept me from walking for a few weeks now. I begin physical therapy this week. I hope it helps get this worked out for good!
@@GreenAcreHomestead Oh now, Sam, I'll be praying for you and your foot. Take care. We'll be here when you can be back.
You guys have done so much work and updates to your home. It should be much more efficient. Glad that you are geeking out.
One thing that I learned a long time ago from somebody that works for the power company we live in Florida if you run one major appliance at a time especially in the beginning of the billing cycle then you’re at the lower rate but if you use a lot of electricity at the beginning of the billing cycle they put you at a higher kilowatt rate for the entire month Up until recently are electric bill even during the summer for a 1900 square-foot house has been under $200
Glad you're getting settled! You have a great way of explaining everything!
So cool guys! Awesome seeing all the things you have done so far. All the best, and your coming close to 100K yay!!!!
I'm very interested in this subject, but I don't understand it at all but I like to listen to people who explain it as carefully as you do. I do things that I understand and enjoy. Thanks Angela for helping him out. Buy
So happy to see you. Take care and be blessed.
Sam, as you are well aware we are in the middle of a complete rewire and I am so sick of looking at wires🙄😩. Although I didn't understand much of this, I'm always impressed by your attention to detail. I'm sure hubby and I will rewatch the video together and he'll understand everything lol. What, no bloopers 😭
If possible to know when you need hot water…you can turn off the hot water during your sleep period at least 8-9 hours. Turn it on when you get up, at the breaker…or turn on 20 minutes before needed…
That is absolutely amazing tyfs so glad too see y’all hugs prayers and much love ❤
A work of art! Totally kool. Sending love and light.
Sam is always up to something (useful). Live you!!!
I actually understood more of this than I thought….we have a smart metre for gas and electric but I quite honestly leave this to my hubby…but it’s interesting as shows when we are in the green or red depending on energy…. I laughed one day when he was home…I put the washer dryer on to get his work clothes ready…he watched it turn red….I put cooker on to cook his tea… again he saw red… so if we don’t do laundry or eat we’re good I told him 🤣🤣Thank goodness it stays green when we watch tv and I have a cordless vacuum that stays green…darn! 🤣🤣 we actually love that it shows cost daily it really helps you see where your money goes or stayed😉😉! Great video especially here in Britain right now with our energy crisis! 🙋🏻♀️🇬🇧💕jane
Hahaha that's too funny! No red? No food!
I think that a wonderful idea! Love watching and listening!
Surprisingly not that expensive. Okay I could see myself geek out over this.
Beautiful organizing of the wiring Sam! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for telling us about all the tools and gadgets that we didn’t know about or thought we needed.
Glad see you guys back with a new video
Missed you folks ❤️
Interesting piece of kit. Glad to see you all are doing well and can’t wait to see what’s in store next, thanks for the video take care
Nice to see you both!
Hello great to see you two together again.
I really enjoyed youtube from the begining. I am so happy that things are working out in your new home.
gasp!! your cable management makes me love you even 1000 times more!!! 🙌🏼😍. 👍🏼
This is exactly what we have been looking for. Thanks 😊
Glad it was helpful!
That is super cool. I love that it can break it down that much including the down to how much money it's costing.
Angela you crack me up. I just love you both. What a neat idea. I hope it works for you.
Wow wow wow this is crazy !!!! So glad your able to find out this information. Whoooo hooo !!!
Thanks for another great video, take care friends!!
Glad your feeling better Sam !
That s a great tool for the home and energy usages..thats for the share..
Hi really good to have you both back in the blog, keep them coming as I look forward to watching.
Many thanks Derek, Reading England 🏴
I’m loving the hat plugging your other channel…let’s go!!!
Loved the video loved seeing all of you God bless.
Again....Sam, your knowledge blows my mind and hello sweet Angela...
Great video, Sam and Angela! It's great that you're already seeing the benefit of the real-time data from your Emporia Vue Energy Monitor. It will be interesting as you use this to track down your vampire loads - and perhaps get that propane fireplace!
That is so cool. It can even help you purchase different appliances should some go out. You could add a water heater blanket.
I love that and can understand why you get a kick out of it. Have fun and enjoy it. This was really awesome. I enjoyed it.
Hello Sam and Angela, I was cleaning and noticed I haven't been to visit in a long time. great to see your doing well. 💕NonnaGrace 🐓
You ALL the Best!!! Yup!!!
Good Day my friends !!!! You are the man Sam ! Hope you all are all well . Hope you are doing well to Anglea, and hello to the boys . All the work you both have done looks good. Prayers, Blessings and hugs to you all.
Hi Sam & Angela. Very informative video. Thanks as always for sharing. Blessings from Rick in N.H.
yay another video
I was getting worried about y'all, glad you are back.....
Thank you for sharing. I really like how you explain this . I really appreciate it ❤
That is a pretty cool device. I'm a data geek, too. Your plans sound super efficient and the fireplace is exciting!
Enjoying the videos. Thank you.
There is a lot of ways to save $$$$ on electricity Hang your clothes out to dry , put led bulbs through out the house , don't take long showers , keep air at 78 , unplug things when not in use . This tool is a very good way to monitor what's using power and when good job sam !
Perhaps a water tank blanket would help a little with it. I had one at a previous residence. Don’t know how much it helped as it was gas.
Excellent evaluation and overview, as always
Love it guys!
Hi Sam & Angela
Good to see you again.
Sam
Sorry, I got lost after the first wire 😀
But still enjoyed your tutorial. I just like how you present everything even if I don't understand it sometimes.
That's why if I use any of your information I just keep going back to the video( probably a 100 times) until I get it.
Praying for a healthy and safe winter for you and the family
What an amazing tool with such an accurate account of your electrical expense. We have an electric fire place in the den. We love it. I didn’t know there were propane fireplaces. Anytime you can save money or at least track over or excessive usages is a brilliant idea. ❤❤❤
More insulation everywhere & go overboard on AC unit size. I have a 3 bedroom 1 bath with a 3 ton AC unit & electric heat. 65 degree on heat & 78 degree for ac works great for me with $125.00 month light bill for 12 months straight. Great idea though!
as you have all LED light and the way you've set it up, off grid lighting, off grid USB charging ports everywhere, cooling selling fans, and water heater would be the way to go, just run you heavy loads with grid.
New gadgits=Farm out!
Thanks for the demonstration!
Big hugs! Big love!
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I hope all is ok. Starting to get worried about you all. I pray all good.
Lovely video ! Lovely couple!
Moved into a house. Turned on the light in the den. Nearly burned out my retinas. Turn off light. Retrieve ladder and check bulbs. Three 60 watt bulbs in overhead!?! Check and replace all bulbs in overhead lights. One month later electric company visits to see if there is an issue with my services. No, it’s all good, why? Explains how precious bill there was nearly $400+ and now was less than $100. How!?! Apparently the previous tenant was practically blind with more wattage than deemed safe for the fixture. I’m surprised there wasn’t a fire. They agreed and too were surprised. Were there any scorch marks. Yes , showed them where. The Lineman was so shocked he checked the wires in the attic and replaced the fixture at no cost. By the time I moved out the electric bill was stabilized to a affordable rate. I know they missed those HUGE bills 🎃🎉👍
Great video, looking forward to installing mine now and calculating Carbon offset from KW/h
Wait a minute!! No out takes??? 😢 my favorite part of your channel 😂
I am so glad to see a new video from your family every time one comes up.
I want to come live with you so I don't miss any events and I'd even do the cooking so Angela could keep doing what she does above and beyond cooking. I KNOW, I KNOW, neither one of you need a MIL figure around every day, it was just a selfish thought on my part to be with a happy, hard working , kind, and loving Christian family.
I am sending prayers and wishes for your family to have a very blessed Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Great to see another video, been missing you guys. Thanks for the info on this, it looks great. Now I really want one of these. I looked at those white wires, and thought, HOW is he gonna do that? But, it's Sam, and he always has it. Thank you Sam & Angela.
That’s is very cool device, knowledge is power lol nice to see comparison from power company. You and Angela have done amazing job transforming mobile home, love watching you work together.
Not owning my home I live in, I couldn't do This.. I KNOW I WISH I COULD!! Where I live in MO, I have the Biggest, High Priced, non efficient Electric Company, known to Man. I have to pay the Electric bill, and it just never figures up. I THINK IT IS MORE COMPARISON with your Neighbor than anything.. but I guess I have to deal with it Being disabled, on a very limited fixed income, and living where the landlord just doesn't care, and knows He could re rent to anyone in a heartbeat.. Healthwise I can't not move at this time, (fighting cancer) it is interesting to see how The Gadget you bought can tell You So Much!! BEEN MISSING YOU ALL !! AND WHAT, NO BLOOPERS🤣😢😢 GOD BLESS & TAKE CARE!!
There is a guy that has a series for peak oil and he talks about how to conserve on electricity and his fixes. Kinda neat
We've been using this for a while now... It does point out energy hogs. I couldn't believe how much our RV fridge was using. Thanks for the discount... Ordered the 16 sensor 4 outlet pack to expand our system .
Spinal Tap! - I always get Sam's references 🤣