I mean, I would bat an eye at a humidifier running 24/7 without any sort of automatic on/off based on humidity levels but maybe in your climate that’s more normal?

I agree with your sentiment. It is interesting to look at total power usage and power usage by device. I'm using IotaWatts to monitor every individual circuit in my house (over 200 of them), and it is easy to miss things that add up. With computers it is quite amazing the difference in power load based on cpu/disk load. When I run my PI calculator (which not only pegs CPU, but hits my SAN very hard) I see over a 1kw difference in my homelab power draw.

Sorry, your house has 200 circuits? Is every outlet on its own circuit or something? Maybe I’m biased because my house is old, but I’ve never heard of having that much copper in the walls.

A few different things drove up the circuit count:

(1) It is a large house ( over 10,000 sq ft ). (2) There are two power paths throughout the entire house - generator and non generator, and most panel locations have two panels for that reason. (3) There are two incoming services from the power company - A standard 400 amp service, and a second 200 amp TOU (Time of use) circuit that is primary used for EV charging. And there are 4 EV chargers, two in the upper garage and two in the lower garage. (4) There is a 16kVa UPS and circuits behind that UPS that go to a few places in the house including the server room.

Lots of cool pictures and info here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/jeffs-mountain-s...

Holy smokes - that’s quite the house. Thank you for the reply!

> "No one bats and eye at a heater"

Then where did the sitcom style stereotype of Dad always turning the thermostat down come from?