simple electric bill facts

that was simple alright.

i like how you call that a fact. so your saying that nation wide, no matter what elec. company i use, that's everybody's cost?

Here's a fact; that's only a ROUGH estimate

In other words... Horse Guano...

Here is a fact, buy some solar panels or a wind generator, and offset your lighting power usage with renewable energy!

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heres a fact about electric bills

First, divide watts by 1000 to get kilowatts:

watts / 1000 = kW

Then multiply kilowatts by the hours of usage to get kilowatt-hours

kW * hours = kWh

Finally, multiply kilowatt-hours by the cost per:

kWh * (cost per kWh) = cost to operate

armlengthbuds said:

for every 500 watts you continually use you add 20$ to your electric bill a month.... Which considering whats brewing in that lil room of ours, isn't so bad....

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thanks! that gives me a little insight on to wat i spend monthly

i'm glad all the other ppl on here can be thankful for the help your trying to give.
Oh wait, they are all douchbags who have nothing better to do but hate on other trying to help
increase the peace, if u got nothing but hate to spread the leave this site and never return
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well seeing as how ur rating can greatly vary by location, and even more if ur on a peak plan or something similar, that number is just random. it costs me 5.04$ a month to run a 250 on 12/12 @ 5.6c per kwh. just look at ur electric bill and plug in the numbers in the formula above. no more guessing... u get an exact answer.

That's doo doo.

AcidBurn901 said:

thanks! that gives me a little insight on to wat i spend monthly

i'm glad all the other ppl on here can be thankful for the help your trying to give.
Oh wait, they are all douchbags who have nothing better to do but hate on other trying to help
increase the peace, if u got nothing but hate to spread the leave this site and never return
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dude, unless you pay the same as the OP per Kw hour this is completely useless. so were a little mean in telling this guy and everyone else who doesnt know better that this is crap advise. big fucking deal.

if you cant take some cynicism, sarcasm, or good old rib poking i suggest you turn off your computer, unplug the phone, and lock youself in your room...life is more than you can handle.

not to mention you have to see if you are on a tiered system, where you have a baseline usage, and 5 tiers up to 300 percent of the baseline, and everything over that you pay .49 cent a kWh!! then you live in cali LOL

sweet my vegging is costin me 33.5 pence a day

Flojo, I guess it's clear now why you had to go vertical.

The only way to explain that cost would be if the power were delivered to your home by truck, stored in batteries.

Atarijedi said:

Here is a fact, buy some solar panels or a wind generator, and offset your lighting power usage with renewable energy!

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Here is a fact. For what even the highest efficiency solar panels and windmill generation costs you will not see an actual return for ages and ages and upkeep will push that back even more.

Renewable energy sources are a joke right now. It is becoming a religion that like so many religions is not based in facts but instead based on feelings and myth-based beliefs.


For most people between 5% and 10% of their energy usage comes from electric items that are plugged in but not turned on. Many electric items ‘leak’ electricity, there is a ‘phantom use’ of electricity. Other items, things with remote controls, are not actually turned off when you turn them off and instead only go into a standby mode and continue to use a small amount of electricity.

If people would unplug things that are not used or have them plugged into power strips and then turn off the power strips when not using the things that are plugged into it they can cut their electricity use by 5% to 10%.

Replace light bulbs with CFL’s and get into the habit of only burning lights in the one room you are in at night and keep that lighting to a minimum and you can increase what you save. If you have an electric water heater install a timer so it heats for an hour or two before you wake up and again for an hour or two before you go to bed. With heavy insulation on your water heater tank you will still have hot water all day.

Some electric companies offer programs where instead of a flat rate for electricity use they have periods during the day, that change seasonally, where electricity is less expensive. That would be during off peak hours so you pick that program and you do laundry and run the dishwasher during the off peak hours and have your water heater run in the off peak hours. Normally weekends are all at the lower price 24 hours a day as are all holidays.

People can easily offset any lighting costs but can actually reduce their overall usage and lower their bills if they just use a little common sense and if there are any programs offered by their electricity company taking advantage of them.

OregonMeds said:

Flojo, I guess it's clear now why you had to go vertical.

The only way to explain that cost would be if the power were delivered to your home by truck, stored in batteries.

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lol youre telling me..

i have buddies who run between 8-10k setups, and it is not uncommon to have a 2000 dollar a month bill
hell my little 2400 watt gig runs me about 350-450

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Ichi said:

Fact: The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

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FINALLY!!! some fucking info we can actually USE!!

armlengthbuds said:

for every 500 watts you continually use you add 20$ to your electric bill a month.... Which considering whats brewing in that lil room of ours, isn't so bad....

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ugzkmk said:

well seeing as how ur rating can greatly vary by location, and even more if ur on a peak plan or something similar, that number is just random. it costs me 5.04$ a month to run a 250 on 12/12 @ 5.6c per kwh. just look at ur electric bill and plug in the numbers in the formula above. no more guessing... u get an exact answer.

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he was close in your case... he said 500w continuously. if you use 250w continuously it would be $10.08. and if you used 500w continuously it would be $20.16

I don't see any facts. I draw 5000 plus watts and six of the lights are only on for 12 hours a day so if i did the math to your facts that would be hmmm let's see. So it would be aroud $75.00 a month I wish thats why my bill is $764.00 at 12cent's per kilw know the facts before posting the facts power rates vary so for you to say this it does not pertain to all maybe for you thats great for me thats fuked not being rude just being trued. With all that money you save you should have a sick grow set up shit I would run hella lights if it was that cheap PG&E already sent me a letter about my usage we have noticed and very high spike in your usage we will be glad to sent out a tech to see what the problem is. Does he smoke send him out.

armlengthbuds said:

for every 500 watts you continually use you add 20$ to your electric bill a month.... Which considering whats brewing in that lil room of ours, isn't so bad....

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