how do you saving or cut down the power bill

Joe2iisbeing

Joe2iisbeing

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smartbadguy said:
how much power can used per month without the power company caring
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lol you do realize the power COMPANY is a company, and you pay them for electricity. What company is going to investigate a good customer? Its the police that are after you not the power company. Now if police start looking at your bill then id be worried
 
Canuck1

Canuck1

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My power bill was between 250.00$ and 350.00$ per month before I started to grow anything.. Now I'm using 2x 400w HPS and 4x 125W CFL's..plus multiple fans, carbon scrubber and de-humidifier.. What I did just before I hooked up my set up were these things.#1. Replaced all bulbs in my house with flourescent replacement bulbs. #2. Put my heat/cool thermostat on a programmable timer to automaticaly adjust temps when I am not at home. #3, Removed my 400w Metal halide that I was using to light my 130 gal fish tank and replaced with 2x 6' marine glo/and 2x power glo flourescent.bulbs. #4 put my pool filter/pump on an outside timer to only come on for 5min every hour when it is dark outside.. Running all my CFL's on 24hrs and my HPS on 12hrs my new hydro bill was under 300.00$.. That to me was shocking.. Its less now then when I wasnt growing anything..
 
liquor2

liquor2

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smartbadguy said:
i still dont know how i figer that out then??
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energy is sold by the kilowatt hour (1000 watts) not the individual watt. So $0.08 per kilowatt hour @ 2700 watts per hour rounded up is $0.22 hour times 12 hours a day is $2.64 a day. Times 30 days in a month adds $79.20 to your monthly electric bill.
 
liquor2

liquor2

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I agree with Canuck1, I did the same thing. Replacing all lights with CFL's and cutting time off the pool pump. Dropped 60 bucks a month of my power bill
 
smartbadguy

smartbadguy

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liquor2 said:
energy is sold by the kilowatt hour (1000 watts) not the individual watt. So $0.08 per kilowatt hour @ 2700 watts per hour rounded up is $0.22 hour times 12 hours a day is $2.64 a day. Times 30 days in a month adds $79.20 to your monthly electric bill.
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so my math was right i just didnt know what the unit

amount of watt \ 1000
times .08 per * whatever per hrs
then times 30 for days and thats your power bill
 
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