"Ed Sirett" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:04:28 +0100, Ben Blaukopf wrote:

John wrote:
that out to be around 2081kWh. Is that amount of consumption about
right for a pilot light? On 2p per kwh that would be around £41 a
year.
The boiler is a Potterton Prima B about 6 years old.



http://www.jobnut.co.uk/services/uti...ectricity.html

says 3-5/month, so it sounds like you're bang on.


around 240W - plausible.

Well I'm due a boiler service soon so I'll ask them to give the pilot
light a good once over and to check that the flame is within the
manufacturers spec. That might save me a fiver a year which I can put
towards a litre of petrol