Hey guys! I live in Southern California and I have had Sense installed for about 5 days now and it’s detected 3 devices. It detected the Fridge, Garage Door, and Heat Device 1.
Heat Device 1 is baffling me as I’m unsure what it exactly is. It turns on once every 2 minutes for 20 seconds and uses about 676w when it’s on.
Things like Keurig coffee machines do this but that wattage is much higher than mi e. Mine uses 245 watts and comes on for 5 seconds every minute unless it’s unplugged.
I have a similar experience. On day 2 it detected a similar heat device 1 running similarly. It has not recorded any activity since day 3 and I am a week into Sense.
I too have a “new” device found (the only one so far) that it chose to call “Heat 1”.
I am a few days into a new install of Sense + Solar. I went around the house and power cycled every device I could think of that may have a resistive heater in it, but not luck in getting “Heat 1” to show as on.
Heat 1 has only come on for a short period on 1 day, but it was on 34 times for an average of 36 seconds per cycle consuming an average 348w.
I’ll followup if I figure it out or if it shows up again. Otherwise I am going to delete the device and see if it comes back.
We have a Keurig that’s a pretty basic model. I found out that it seems to be the Keurig. Maybe the newer Keurigs use less wattage but once I turn it on, like actually on and not standby, Heat 1 comes on immediately and uses quite a bit of wattage and then drops down to around 600-700 watts periodically when it’s just keeping the water hot.
The one I’m using now is newer but still about 2 years old. When it s on and brewing, it uses 1500 watts. That is the detect ion I have for it. After that heater runs for a minute or two, the secondary 250 watt comes on a few seconds each minute.
From what I’ve been able to find, you are correct and the newer ones use less electricity. The older models had a larger secondary heater.