I would just like to share on how you can determine the total cost of your electricity bill from your grow room.
First when you get your bill find out how much a Kw per hour you are charged.
Some company"s add charges so you must subtract them if it does not come on the bill you must know how much a Kwh Cost. Usually the company's website has all the cost tax's and monthly fees.
Ex. 786 Kwh used and your bill is about $105.45 .
MY rate is about(0.09920)
Tax(0.0005340)
So say you have 8 23w Cfl on 24 hours a day.
8*23=184w*24=4416
So you would use 4.416 Kilo watt Hours a day.
Lets say in may with 31 days you would multiply 4.416*31=136.896kwh a month
So then it would be 136.896*0.09920+$13.58 a month
Most company's add the taxes to the Kilo watt not by the price after so you can take 136.896*0.0005340=like 7 cents lol
My bill says they don't charge sales tax to residential community.
so $13.90+$.07=$ 13.97.
This is a good way to figure out if the HiD lights are worth it.
P.S. Try and find all the watts used for the equipment such as fans and water pumps,etc this won't make that much of a difference but the more accurate the better
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First when you get your bill find out how much a Kw per hour you are charged.
Some company"s add charges so you must subtract them if it does not come on the bill you must know how much a Kwh Cost. Usually the company's website has all the cost tax's and monthly fees.
Ex. 786 Kwh used and your bill is about $105.45 .
MY rate is about(0.09920)
Tax(0.0005340)
So say you have 8 23w Cfl on 24 hours a day.
8*23=184w*24=4416
So you would use 4.416 Kilo watt Hours a day.
Lets say in may with 31 days you would multiply 4.416*31=136.896kwh a month
So then it would be 136.896*0.09920+$13.58 a month
Most company's add the taxes to the Kilo watt not by the price after so you can take 136.896*0.0005340=like 7 cents lol
My bill says they don't charge sales tax to residential community.
so $13.90+$.07=$ 13.97.
This is a good way to figure out if the HiD lights are worth it.
P.S. Try and find all the watts used for the equipment such as fans and water pumps,etc this won't make that much of a difference but the more accurate the better
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