There are a lot of ways to go about getting a lower energy bill.
But for one thing, I didn’t realize that half of my problem was my terrible clothes dryer.
It took 2 hours just to get my laundry to get to bone dry. I didn’t realize that the thermal fuse in my dryer was getting ready to fail. When it finally did, I had to test all of these components with my electrical meter to see which was the culprit. The first thing on the clothes dryer that I decided to test was the door switch. I used the continuity setting on my electrical meter and confirmed that the door switch was still working. Then I moved to the start button on the control panel. I basically did the exact same thing as I did with the door switch, first removing the wire leads to the switch and then putting my electrical meter leads on it to do a continuity test. Once I confirmed both the door switch and the start button were working, I was fairly certain that it was the thermal fuse in the back of the clothes dryer that needed to be replaced. After I replaced the thermal fuse with a new one, the clothes dryer was creating heat again. However, this didn’t have as much of an effect on the electricity bill as I expected. That’s why now I’m trying to lower my electricity use by using my air conditioner a lot less. Running my air conditioner all the time has a huge effect on how much energy that is consumed in my house. If I can lower the air conditioner use, that means it can also lower the energy bill.