Power Consumption / Light Cost
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HydroRed
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What do you pay per KWH where your at?
shawnery
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.16 cents but they fuck us when we go over the allotted amount and I find my way to the highest tier. The tier is per day not per month!
I get that it makes no sense but when I talk to pge they tell me a number that fits with my monthy bill.
worldspawn
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Get yourself a smart plug and you'll find out exactly how much power your using per day. I have one by meross which shows current consumption as well logs historic usage. Its ~20 aud.
My flower lights use 17.28Kw (which actually works out to what i expect 480w x 3 x 12). You can assume a linear power consumption so per hour I am using 1.44Kw per hour.
My peak cost is (all AUD) 38c per hour and off peak is 19c (thank your 2 decades of successive energy policy fail Australia) so starting at 12PM and finishing at 12AM I've used 1hr of off peak and 11 of peak (i have solar power so my economics are more complex) so I'm spending $4.37 every day on flower lighting. I'm doing 10 weeks / 70 days so it will cost me $305.9 in electricity to get to harvest.
My energy retailer also likes to tell me "your using the same amount of energy as a family of 6!". I tell them "I do science" lol
My flower lights use 17.28Kw (which actually works out to what i expect 480w x 3 x 12). You can assume a linear power consumption so per hour I am using 1.44Kw per hour.
My peak cost is (all AUD) 38c per hour and off peak is 19c (thank your 2 decades of successive energy policy fail Australia) so starting at 12PM and finishing at 12AM I've used 1hr of off peak and 11 of peak (i have solar power so my economics are more complex) so I'm spending $4.37 every day on flower lighting. I'm doing 10 weeks / 70 days so it will cost me $305.9 in electricity to get to harvest.
My energy retailer also likes to tell me "your using the same amount of energy as a family of 6!". I tell them "I do science" lol
Beantown_greentown
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My god. I figured it out for last year. My electric bill was thirty thousand for one year. And we gave away everything we didn’t smoke ourselves. And I didn’t really grow that much I had about 22 plants in flower . Ten or so 315 watt lamps , an air conditioner , ten or so fans water bubbling constantly. My bill went from about 350.00 a month to about 12 to 1500 a month. But it’s all for a good cause. Vets and patients who can’t afford to go to dispensaries. Fuck it. #moreweedlessgreed
20 x 20 room ten to fifteen lights in there. 315s KICK ASS . Veg room upstairs with 2 600 watt hps with one 315 in the middle.
I guess it gets expensive to run all this shit. Ha true story when the electric company called they said Um sir your electric went up about 2004% from this time last year. My reply was
YES ON 4 woooohoooooo that’s weed growing in my cellar not someone stealing electricity. Yes on four baby.
20 x 20 room ten to fifteen lights in there. 315s KICK ASS . Veg room upstairs with 2 600 watt hps with one 315 in the middle.
I guess it gets expensive to run all this shit. Ha true story when the electric company called they said Um sir your electric went up about 2004% from this time last year. My reply was
YES ON 4 woooohoooooo that’s weed growing in my cellar not someone stealing electricity. Yes on four baby.
Wizard of Nozs
Active Member
Have you tried measuring out those lights with par meters and setting them up as to provide the most illumination with the least amount of electricity? I did this my self with a 15 plant operation and I was able to take down 2 of my 600 watters and keep the needed par. Needless to say, it saved me a ton of money. I ended up taking it down and just getting a nice sunny area for outdoor grows. That saved me even more. Now I have one plant I work on indoors to send in for contest and the outdoor area goes to the patients.
ilovetoskiatalta
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Does that mean a phantom 315cmh running on 240v is 240 x 1.5 = 360watts?
getogrow
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yes, correct.
marosa
Active Member
dat escalated quickly.
ttystikk
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Did they have the cops come pay a visit or are things working out?
TheDifferenceX
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I run 600w LED + 150w HPS + 5 fans + window A/C and it raises my electricity by about $50/month. Without the A/C, about $20 more a month.
I run for about 1000W of fans, 2 X 1000W MH/HPS (in process to upgrade to LED) a 8000 btu AC for the root zone, so im about at 3600W and i pay 6.29c/kw/h, problem is in alberta we get so much administrative charge that is 50% of my bill, last month i was veggin 16h a day, my power bill for a month...
