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Originally Posted by Al B. Fuct
You're right, 2kW is a gob of power when you start running it every day for 12h/day. My power bill went up a LOT. You can work out your own power cost by multiplying your power usage by your pwr co rate. Check your bill, should be around 8-12 cents per kilowatt-hour. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is simply a 1000W (1kW) load running for 1 hour. Could also be a 500W load for 2 hours or a 2kW load for .5 hour.
I went about increasing the efficiency of other things around here. Put in solar water heating and replaced all incandescent lights with CFLs, added some more insulation in some places, fixed a lot of air gaps around doors & windows. The power bill is now slightly LESS than it was before I built the op. The solar water heat was a large part of the savings.
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Ok so i think i did this right and i came up with a 400 watts x 12 hours= 4800 x .08=384? that number seems like really wrong, lol.
My formula is probably way off! Can you help my determine power cost!
Also after reading what you said about PPP being mostly sative i decided to just use those in my dwc and i'll try to find a indica with good yield and a good high to put in the sog.
Al b. if its possible could you email me @
drac989@cox.net i would like to talk more about your setup! It rawks my world!