New Grower Power usage calculations

[kernalkronic]

PLEASE HELP!

I've started my grow about 1.5 mths ago and it seems like my light bill has jump drastically in that time only using a total of 134w of fluroescents for my setup. 2 27w cfls and 2 40w fluro tubes. I've looked at all the conversion and i'm sure where to start. my energy company charges .6 for the first 600kwh and .14 for anything after. i was just going to assume the .14 just for maximum cost extimations.
please help anyone

 

[Jackal]

http://www.autoflower.org/f42/power-consumption-cost-calculators-1953.html

That should help you out. .14 is pretty pricey at least to me. My company is at 08 first 1000 kwh and 09 for over.

 

[killah706]

i really needed this. thanks for the post!

 

[blackout]

Some companies may have cheaper rates at off peak times, usually at night until morning, so you can change your timers to suit. You could also make use of the heat given off, if you had a filter blowing into your room it will keep it warm, in this case you could time it so it is heating when you want it.

134W is not a lot, with a bit of thought you could probably offset this with some smarter energy usage, e.g. changing to CFLs, not overfilling your kettle, leaving clothes to dry outside -or partially dry on a clothes horse. A kettle or tumble drier use up to 3000W, so a drier on for 90mins could be 4.5kWhr, which is equivalent to your 134W on for 33.6 hours.

If you cook a lot you could save by using more efficient methods.

 

[kernalkronic]

http://www.autoflower.org/f42/power-consumption-cost-calculators-1953.html

That should help you out. .14 is pretty pricey at least to me. My company is at 08 first 1000 kwh and 09 for over.

yeah .14 is outrageous we even got a thing in the mail saying how we use so much more than the people around us, but its a 2 story house, old as the hills, terrible insulation, the central air is broken so there is 3 small AC's running pretty much 24/7 to keep portions of the house cool enough to tolerate. but well enough i figured out that even my lights at .14 well its more like .15 at .1458 cents. its still less than 15 bucks a month to run them 24 hours a day. when i figured out that the ac in my room at 484w for pretty much 24/7 or atleast the the fan, is almost 50 bucks a month, so i think i'm gunna stay with cfls for now just go bigger bigger, or save the money for led, in power usage its worth every penny.

---------- Post added 08-10-2011 at 06:45 PM ----------

This post needs to be sticky-ed or at least Jackals post with the link to the conversion, there are a ton of people that look for this info

 

[Muddy]

That link, as well as a bunch of other useful ones, can be found in the Reference Links sub forum. If you haven't done so already, take a look. I think you'll find a lot of interesting and informative material there.

[/COLOR]This post needs to be sticky-ed or at least Jackals post with the link to the conversion, there are a ton of people that look for this info