# How is it possible that Energy reports 65kWh power consumed in a day by a \<10W light switched on twice for a few minutes?

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**Category:** Energy\
**Tags:** app, energy\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-it-possible-that-energy-reports-65kwh-power-consumed-in-a-day-by-a-10w-light-switched-on-twice-for-a-few-minutes/131552 "2025-02-25T08:50:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-it-possible-that-energy-reports-65kwh-power-consumed-in-a-day-by-a-10w-light-switched-on-twice-for-a-few-minutes/131552/15 "2025-02-26T11:43:40Z")

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> [@K\_S](#):
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> (TBH anything entitled ‘megathread’ generally makes me think of something more valuable to do with with my time!).

This was not an invitation to read through the entire topic, but a hint that the same or similar problems have already been reported and discussed in the megathread.

> [@K\_S](#):
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> so it would be my guess that the Athom software is trying to calculate the power consumed from those, not the Fibaro relay sending a total consumption figure

I don’t think so. In [Developer Tools → Z-Wave → Log](https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/zwave) you can check which data is sent from your Fibaro Double Switch 2 to Homey.

> [@RogerSt](#):
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> I guess that a reset of the device itself may then be an option. So reset/re-add…

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/c/1c51095e1aaa4a88fbb90d0543b13b0e74f1bdc7.png)  
([Source](https://manuals.fibaro.com/switch-2/))

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