The figures in this table are approximate. The actual power consumption of your household appliances may vary significantly from the figures in this chart. Before you do a final load calculation for your household, we strongly recommend checking the tags and owners manuals for your appliances to get precise figures.
Each figure given for Watts used. This is converted to watt-hours by multiplying watts used by hours used. Many items, such as garage door openers, are used much less than 1 hour per day. Our PDF load calculation form will automatically calculate any appliance’s Watt-hour consumption according the fraction of hours used per day, down to 0.1 hours. (0.1 hr = 1/10 of an hour = 6 minutes)
Items marked (n/a) would normally be replaced by non-electric equivalents in homes using alternative energy systems.
| Appliance – Watts | Appliance – Watts | Appliance – Watts |
| Coffee pot – 200 | Garage door opener – 350 | Compact Fluorescent (CF) vs. Incandescent Wattage* |
| Coffee maker – 800 | Ceiling fan – 10-50 | |
| Toaster – 800-1500 | Table fan – 10-25 | 40 watt incan. – 11 watt CF |
| Popcorn popper – 250 | Electric blanket – 200 | 60 watt incan. – 16 watt CF |
| Blender – 300 | Blow dryer – 1000 | 75 watt incan. – 20 watt CF |
| Microwave – 600-1500 | Shaver – 15 | 100 watt incan. – 30 watt CF |
| Waffle iron – 1200 | Water Pik – 100 | Hedge trimmer – 450 |
| Hot plate – 1200 | Computer… | Weed eater – 500 |
| Frying pan – 1200 | laptop – 20-50 | 1/4″ drill – 250 |
| Dishwaher – 1200-1500 | desktop – 80-150 | 1/2″ drill – 750 |
| Gbg. disposal – 450 | printer – 100 | 1″ drill – 1000 |
| Washing machine… | Typewriter – 80-200 | 9″ disc sander – 1200 |
| automatic – 500 | TV (25″ color) – 150 | 3″ belt sander – 1000 |
| manual – 300 | TV (19″ color) – 70 | 12″ chain saw – 1100 |
| Vaccuum… | TV (12″ B&W) – 20 | 14″ band saw – 1100 |
| upright – 200-700 | VCR – 40 | 7 1/4″ circ. saw – 900 |
| handheld – 100 | CD player – 35 | 8 1/4″ circ. saw – 1400 |
| Sewing Machine – 100 | Portable stereo – 10-30 | Refrig./Freezer – Conventional… |
| Iron – 1000 | Clock radio – 1 | 20 cubic feet – 540 |
| Clothes dryer… | Car stereo – 8 | 16 cubic feet – 475 |
| electric (n/a) – 4000 | Sattelite dish – 30 | Sun Frost Refrig./Freezer (DC*)… |
| gas heated – 300-400 | CB radio – 5 | 16 cubic feet – 112 |
| Heater (n/a)… | Electric clock – 3 | 12 cubic feet – 70 |
| engine block – 150-1000 | Radio telephone… | Vestfrost Refrig./Freezer… |
| portable – 1500 | receive – 5 | 10.5 cubic feet – 60 |
| waterbed – 400 | transmit – 40-150 | Freezer – Conventional… |
| stock tank – 100 | Lights… | 14 cubic feet FF – 440 |
| Furnace blower – 300-1000 | 100w incan. – 100 | 14 cubic feet – 350 |
| Air Conditioner (n/a)… | 25w CF – 28 | Sun Frost Freezer (DC)… |
| room – 1000 | 50w DC incan. – 50 | 19 cubic feet – 112 |
| central – 2000-5000 | 40w DC halogen – 40 | Vestfrost Freezer… |
| Electric mower (n/a) – 1500 | 20w CF – 22 | 7.5 cubic feet – 50 |