question about power

i was wourding if yall might hAVE a idea on how much my bill woud go up if i used 1000watt light and ballast with 3 fans i live in louisiana......... thanks for the help

chk the grow faq it should have the mathematic formula to figure out your bill not sure but it should be their sumwhere

my whole system (fans, 1000w lights, hydro pumps, AC, etc..) increased my electric bill by about 100 bucks.

here is a light/power calculator...
BC Hydro - Power Smart for Business - Online Lighting Calculator

You can also use this...
To calculate cost: multiply bulb wattage (WT) times hours of operation (HRS) and divide by 1000. This equals the number of kilowatt hours of electricity consumed.

Example: a 400 watt bulb running 18 hours will consume 7.2 kilowatt hours (400 X 18 / 1000)

check your power bill for the cost of each kilowatt hour. You can then multiply the number of kilowatt hours by the cost of a kilowatt hour to determine the cost per month.

Some examples (assuming a price of .04 per kilowatt hour):
A 400 watt light fixture running 6 hours a day:
6 HRS X 400 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 (days) = $3.31 per month

A 1000 watt light fixture running 24 hours a day:
24 HRS x 1000 WATTS \ 1000 X .04 X 30 (days) = $28.80 per month

The formula is:
Bulb Wattage = WATT
Hours of operation = HRS
Cost per Kilowatt hour (should be represented in cents like .04 or .06)= .KH
the 1000 is part of the formula
and the 30 represents days in a month

FORMULA:
WATT X HRS \ 1000 X .KH X 30 = cost per month

So you would read that as Watts times hours divided by 1000 times cost of kilowatt hour times 30 days equals cost per month

acer said:

i was wourding if yall might hAVE a idea on how much my bill woud go up if i used 1000watt light and ballast with 3 fans i live in louisiana......... thanks for the help

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Check your electric bill and see how much you pay per kilowatt hour. Let's say it's 10 cents/hr and you're running a 1000w (1kw) light...it'll be a dime for every hour your lights are on. The fans probably won't add much to that....maybe a few cents/hr.

Looks like e-mail468 beat me to it. I only wish MY cost/hr was below 12cents!

Hey Email468....how ya doing? The Papaya and HK will be harvested shortly!

gohydro said:

Looks like e-mail468 beat me to it. I only wish MY cost/hr was below 12cents!

Hey Email468....how ya doing? The Papaya and HK will be harvested shortly!

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i'm doing well - and yourself?

great news about the papaya - wish i was around - i'd help you clean it up for some smoking privileges!

i am not doing anything current - i had some heat issues i need to sort out before taking the plunge again!

just got back from chkn the grow faq and didn't see anythin their which suprised me butim looking in ine of my old books where i calculated mine but it seems i only wrote down the end result nut how to do it but yea you find out what your chargedpre kwh and then multiply .10 (1000 watts) by the number of hours its on and multiply that by whatever you are charged per kwh I think i'll do some math and see ( i like to do mathmatics when im high). well it looks like a bunch of pple beat me to it

tusseltussel said:

just got back from chkn the grow faq and didn't see anythin their which suprised me butim looking in ine of my old books where i calculated mine but it seems i only wrote down the end result nut how to do it but yea you find out what your chargedpre kwh and then multiply .10 (1000 watts) by the number of hours its on and multiply that by whatever you are charged per kwh I think i'll do some math and see ( i like to do mathmatics when im high). well it looks like a bunch of pple beat me to it

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yep - here is the formula from my post above...
FORMULA:
WATT X HRS \ 1000 X .KH X 30 = cost per month

How ever much it is , it wont be enough to get cops attention
U can go up to 4 x 1000 watt hps till u might get a high bill .

email468 said:

i'm doing well - and yourself?

great news about the papaya - wish i was around - i'd help you clean it up for some smoking privileges!

i am not doing anything current - i had some heat issues i need to sort out before taking the plunge again!

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Yeah...I wish you were around too. I'd gladly keep you high during the manicuring process. I have a HUGE job ahead of me. Besides manicuring I'll need to clean/sterilize/refill all grow apparatus, start the whole bubblebag process, and move the latest clones in to place. This is a whole weekend thing. After culling I ended up with 4 fems and they are freekin HUGE. The dams stalks are nearly as big as the 3" netpots! I expect somewhere near 1.5-2.0 lbs.

Let me know if I can help out with heat issue discussions.

gohydro said:

Yeah...I wish you were around too. I'd gladly keep you high during the manicuring process. I have a HUGE job ahead of me. Besides manicuring I'll need to clean/sterilize/refill all grow apparatus, start the whole bubblebag process, and move the latest clones in to place. This is a whole weekend thing. After culling I ended up with 4 fems and they are freekin HUGE. The dams stalks are nearly as big as the 3" netpots! I expect somewhere near 1.5-2.0 lbs.

Let me know if I can help out with heat issue discussions.

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as much as i love growing... manicuring can be a drag but cleaning up just bums me right out.

but manicuring a couple of pounds...ouch!

I hope i have the heat problem licked - but had to resort to using an AC unit to do it (though it had the fringe benefit of keeping my res nice and cool too!)

i just figured it out its going to be 86 dollars a month so i think that i can swing that thanks for the help

so if you rum 18 hr a day for 30 days a month=540hr 540x1.000(1000watt bulb= 540 x whatever you are charged per kwh, we will say .072 =38.88 think this is it but in the time it took me to remember how its done and write it you probably got your answer a few times so here is me tryin to help

yeah thanks for the help