Balmoral SBR6 compressor unit

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We have a Balmoral SBR6 installed in our garden with the electricity hooked up to our house. the unit is shared with one other property so they pay half the costs. cannot find anywhere the KW of the electrical unit so can't work out the running costs. Anybody able to help with this?
Thanks.
 
A quick google shows me a load current of 0.32amps continuous, with 1.6amp startup.

So, 0.32amps suggests 73.6watts.

At 14 pence per unit, this would be roughly £90 per year.
 
Thanks Lectrician - at present fault light keeps coming on and installer can't find why, that means we have to keep turning on manually so extra cost via start-up charge was useful to know. Hoping they will sort it after New Year.
Happy New Year.
 
The startup current only occurs for a fraction of a second typically, so will play very little in your costing calculations.
 
thank you 'household'. Our engineer is liaising with Balmoral - they think it needs reprogramming. Hoping it will be sorted after holidays.
 
karo said:
We have a Balmoral SBR6 installed in our garden with the electricity hooked up to our house. the unit is shared with one other property so they pay half the costs. cannot find anywhere the KW of the electrical unit so can't work out the running costs. Anybody able to help with this?
Thanks.
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Is there room inside the control enclosure for an electricity meter?
 
An extract:

As in all biological treatment plants there are three stages to the treatment the process. These are:- . The Primary Settlement - Where the crude sewage settles and is partially broken down by anaerobic bacteria . The Biological Stage - Where the liquor (put me right off my pie and mash) from the primary settlement stage is broken down further by the more active aerobic bacteria . The Final Settlement - Where the light .humus (greek food now??) . is allowed to settle out leaving only the clear .effluent. to pass out into the drain. In the Balmoral SBR, crude sewage enters a large Primary Settlement Tank (PST) which has adequate capacity to accommodate and balance out peak flows (eg. early mornings and evenings) and which provides very good settling characteristics for gross solids (what about floaters?) as well as generous sludge storage capacity. From the PST a pre- determined volume of the settled liquor is transferred to the Reactor Vessel (RV) for biological treatment by means of an air lift pump. Within the RV a powerful air bubble diffuser aerates the liquor for a set time period (normally 4 to 6 hours). This produces dense colonies of bacteria which in turn break down and clarify the pollutants (hope i'm never reincarnated as a bacterium!!)
 
OK - what about the prospect of the liquor on your plate being made with water which contains some of the liquor from an SBR which had been discharged into a water course?

:lol:
 
Personally I find liquor is an excellent lingere-loosening tool.

Not too sure about that now I know where it comes from!
 
electrical unit meter sounds a good idea but don't think there's room.

The rest of you --- perlease! too much information at lunch and dinner time. I may never eat again!!
 

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