Lighting, it will only take a sec of your time.

Hi, many people have said I can find this info on here, but I can't, plz don't send me a link, if you can just answer as best you can. Thanks.
Say my power bill is $0 - how much will it be after this set up.
(4) 1000w HPS 12/12
(1) 400w MH 24/7
(3) flouresent lights just for hanging over the clones.
This info will be very useful in my grow room design. Thank you for ur time.

4 to 5 hundred a month

treacherous said:

4 to 5 hundred a month

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wtf - aahahahahahha are you smoking crack? 400 dollars?


sorry trecherous... just busting your balls...

There are calculators on line.. just google, electricity cost calculators... and you can figure it out...

I am pretty sure it is on average 20-50 dollars a month to run a 1000 watt bulb for 18 hours a day... in the USA...

now... if you go over your monthly allowance for energy cunt sump tion... then they penalize you an it could double...

but at the most... for the opertaion you are talking about... i would say 100-200 bucks a month.....

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Whew thank God, I can handle $100-$200 a month, not 400 to 500 though. I hope u are right garden knowm...wait you will be right! haha anyone else have any info? thanks

Sorry if you cant search for more then 2 min then I can't not post a link.

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/3284-power-consumption-light-cost.html

Yeah check the "Indoor Growing" were it says "Growing under LIGHTS" and OMFG, it is a sticky at the TOP!!?!?

To further prove my point.
Search for "Light Cost" with the qoutes.
https://www.rollitup.org/search.php?searchid=505687

Look what comes up as the SECOND link?

Sorry I am not trying to be mean but im a BIG fan of knowledge and doing things for myself.

In the words of Vince Vaughn in MADE, "There's a nice way to do that" Sorry I don't have a powerbill yet that I can do those calculations with. I'm planning everything out b4 I buy everything. So first calm, second calm, third you didn't answer my question. haha jk not being a dick just want a quick answer, if that pisses you off by all means you don't have to respond, no hard feelings. Peacegodbless

All I am saying is that DOES anser your question and much faster. As it took me literally 10 seconds to find this info as aposed to the 8min it took for someone to reply to you.

If your JUST NOW gathering info and planning to buy soon then thats funny. Planning should be down over a length of time to damn near perfection. but yeah I know I dont have to reply. Hopefulyl other people will see this and notice the link I posted because there to lazy to search themsemlves.

martyshoemaker said:

In the words of Vince Vaughn in MADE, "There's a nice way to do that" Sorry I don't have a powerbill yet that I can do those calculations with. I'm planning everything out b4 I buy everything. So first calm, second calm, third you didn't answer my question. haha jk not being a dick just want a quick answer, if that pisses you off by all means you don't have to respond, no hard feelings. Peacegodbless

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if you dont know how much power costs were you live,how would we.

good question

Why can't everyone be like garden knowm? Im going with that answer till I get my first bill.

To calculate cost: multiply bulb wattage (WT) times hours of operation (HR) and divide by 1000. This equals the number of kilowatt hours of electricity consumed.

Example: a 400 watt bulb running 18 hours will consume 7.2 kilowatt hours

check your power bill for the cost of each kilowatt hour. You can then multiply the number of kilowatt hours by the cost of a kilowatt hour to determine the cost per month.

Some examples (assuming a price of .04 per kilowatt hour):
A 400 watt light fixture running 6 hours a day:
6HRS X 460 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 (days) = $3.31 per month

A 1000 watt light fixture running 24 hours a day:
24 HRS x 1000 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 (days) = $28.80 per month

So to answer your question:
12 X 4000 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 = $57.60
24 X 400 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 = $ 11.52
Flouresents = I have no clue but it looks like about an extra $70 bucks a month or so.

The formula is:
Bulb Wattage = WT
Hours of operation = HRS
Cost per Kilowatt hour (should be represented in cents like .04 or .06)= .KH

WT X HRS \ 1000 X .KH X 30 = cost per month

the 1000 is part of the formula
and the 30 represents days in a month

So you would read that as Watts times hours divided by 1000 times cost of kilowatt hour times 30 days equals cost per month