Electricity Bill Sky rocketed

jondamon said:

I would have to agree that it is probably the AC in your house that is causing the rise in electricity costs.

If you want to add up your grow running costs you only need a few minutes to check.

You can do this with 1 of your roomates who obviously know you are growing so that you have a witness.

First you start with taking the wattages from all your equipment that includes

Lighting
fans
Reservoir
or anything else that you have running in your grow op.

Then you multiply the amount of each of the items wattages by the number of hours that it runs for.

So for instance if you use a 400w light then this uses around 400watts of electricity per hour, you then multiply this amount by the number of hours you have it running.
18 x 400 = 7200w this is 7.2Kwh per day
Fans
100w x 24 (if you have your fans running constantly) = 2400w this is 2.4kwh per day

Now add all your kwh together to get the total running amount of kwh per day for your grow 9.6Kwh

Then you multiply this number by the amount you pay for electricity, in this case i will use 0.09 (GBP)
total daily running cost of 0.864 (GBP) this is definately not alot of money per day. Then you multiply this by the amount of days the bill you have received covers. This will work out your Billing amount extra per bill for your grow room.

If you have trouble working it all out drop another message on here with
1. Amount paid per Kwh
2. Amount of Watts used per day

With this information i can tell you how much of that bill you have to pay for your grow op.


J

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MonkeyFonics said:

Id say the AC, water heater, and fridge take up the majority of elec. in any house.
You could get the kill-a-watt tester and use it to figure out the rest of your room-mates' electric usage.
Replace every bulb in your house with 13w cfls to start. Most appliances will suck elec from the wall even if turned off, so its not fair to blame the grow gear.

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