GreenTigerCA
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Just wondering if anyone is running 12 - 1,000w lamp in their room and if so, what was your monthly electric bill running you?
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GT
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12,000w room monthly electric cost?
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sebastopolian
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Well you have to included and the other equipment, fans, ac, exchaust, etc. PG&E without a discount, Can run approx. $2,500.00-$3,000.00 a month, easily. My one flower room is 12- 1000 watts. HPS. Hope that helps. Happy growing.
djdestroyer
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Can anyone share more universal information on this? Is calculating your total energy consumption as simple as adding up all the watts per hour, converting it to kilowatts, then multiplying by your energy rate?
For example and hypothetically speaking, if you had 12 - 400 watt lights, plus about 2200 watts in other equipment (7000 watts total) running 24 hours a day, you would be at 7000 watts per hour or 7 kilowatts per hour, correct? An average rate of energy is 7 cents per kilowatt hour, multiplied by the 7 kilowatt hours, equals 49 cents an hour... 49 cents an hour multiplied by 24 hours in a day, and 30 days in a month, equals $352.80 for the month. Is this correct?
For example and hypothetically speaking, if you had 12 - 400 watt lights, plus about 2200 watts in other equipment (7000 watts total) running 24 hours a day, you would be at 7000 watts per hour or 7 kilowatts per hour, correct? An average rate of energy is 7 cents per kilowatt hour, multiplied by the 7 kilowatt hours, equals 49 cents an hour... 49 cents an hour multiplied by 24 hours in a day, and 30 days in a month, equals $352.80 for the month. Is this correct?
GreenTigerCA
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Helps with my answer - Yes. Helps with my wallet - no. 
But what you should be making on a 12k room should more than take care of that 
Mind me asking what your water bill is running on that room?
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But what you should be making on a 12k room should more than take care of that Mind me asking what your water bill is running on that room?
Peace
GT
Well you have to included and the other equipment, fans, ac, exchaust, etc. PG&E without a discount, Can run approx. $2,500.00-$3,000.00 a month, easily. My one flower room is 12- 1000 watts. HPS. Hope that helps. Happy growing.
sebastopolian
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I not sure, cause I have a veg. room, etc. But its relatively not too bad. The only Bill that you care about is the power bill. Just remember when u run 12 lights, don't live ilike your running 12 lights, cause it goes fast!
GreenTigerCA
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haha I know what you mean. I'm good with money as long as I know all the factors.
a mongo frog
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dont forget about all the time involved... 12 lights massive amount of work. oh ya and the cost of growing meadium, nutes, and the veg room u have to have to keep that machine running grow after grow.
alexonfire
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You also will need to replace all the lights about once every year.
420monster
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12 1000w lights will cause a good energy spike which could leave to the infamous knock at the door
ExDex1x1
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Just make sure you have a nice chunk of change saved up for the first few weeks when you're not going to have any finished product to offset your expenses. 99% of the time thats where people fuck up when you start a big grow op.
Its always best to make sure that if SOME HOW your entire first crop fails that you have enough money to support yourself for a good 6 months with absolutely no income from your grow room.
Its always best to make sure that if SOME HOW your entire first crop fails that you have enough money to support yourself for a good 6 months with absolutely no income from your grow room.
mrduke
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a good point to concern also is that in CA. PG&E is on a tiered meter system. meaning that for example : the first 100 kw is .06 the next 100K is .12 and then the final tier which is like 90% of your time if running more than one light is .18cents an hour. I dont think these are the exact numbers but you get the idea, you can check your bill for the real numbers. I run 3-1000's plus a 400 and AC + ect. at just over 500$ amonth
RawBudzski
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Yea.. your bill would be at least 600 with other house equip. LEAST. maybe around 7-8 even
RawBudzski
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with 2 600w, fans, t5 and such my bill went from around 220 to 400
Yeah - that's it... but a 400w light actually uses about 435watts, a 600 about 675, and a 1000 burns 1100 watts.
(wattage /1000) x rate per kwh = cost per hour of operation. Calculating how much wattage your AC and such devices use can be difficult as they turn off and on as temps shift. For such items you can buy a simple inline digital device that displays the kilowatts being used.
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