On 13:04 25 Sep 2009, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Pete Brown wrote:
On 10:29 22 Sep 2009, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:24:30 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:

No, the red digit is 10 ft^3 and your meter is displaying
961290 ft^3.
Oh yes, I was wrong previously. (Mitigating circumstance is
that I've not lived in a place with a mains gas supply for
10 years so the nitty gritty details of billing is but a hazy
memory, so only sending the 100's of cuft figure had slipped
my mind).

So the red digit should advance one for every 140 revs of the
dial.



This is important guys!

I want to know how much extra it costs to warm all my ready
meals in the oven (with good results) rather than using the
microwave (with crap results). :-)

If the dial goes round 140 times for each time the digit
advances then it's no wonder my gas meter was useless when I
tried to see how much gas it took to heat up the oven.

I'm back to square one. I need to ask if someone in the UK
with a decent gas meter can give me an approx answer to that.

My cooker takes about 10 minutes to get to Regulo 6 which is
the setting I usually use. What's it costing me?


entirely depends on heat lost into the room, how much that
replaces heat the CH would have been generating otherwise (at
probably lower efficiency) and how burnt you like your
prepackaged garbage to be, I suppose.

I am looking for an approximate figure.

I don't need it accurate to three significant digits. Within 50% or
100% is good enough to give me an idea of cost so I can compare it to
the microwave.

:-)