anthonyb420
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Planning to get a mars hydro 4x4 grow tent kit with the tsw 2000 led grow light. how much would light bill go up running one of these tent kits?
cost of running grow tent
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Token Dankies
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depends on your KW/H , I think my bill went up like 15 bucks a month.
Hook Daddy
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It’s a 300w light. It would cost the same as running three 100w lights. Good news is the tent doesn’t use any power at all! Unless you add a fan or two, exhaust fan and filter, heater, water chiller for the res, water pups and automatic timers, a humidifier or dehumidifier, co2 tanks and controllers, etc. then it will be $240.93/mo.
hotrodharley
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Look at your electric bill for the base rate per kilowatt hour. If you have a 300 watt light running 28 hours a day just multiply 400 X 18. Take that number and multiply it X the rate per kWh.
That's how much a day this light will cost if running full power.
speedwell68
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I pay £0.2125 per Kwh. I am running 4 150w TS1000 lights. So at maximum on 12/12 I am burning 7.2Kwh per day in lighting, costing £1.53 per day, or £42 a month, or about $55. Chuck in about 0.5Kwh of fans and you are looking at $60 a month. TBH it is a really cheap hobby, IMHO.
OldMedUser
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All you guys get cheaper power then. I'm paying 26¢/kwh so for a 600W at 18hrs/day it's :
0.60kwh x 18hrs/day x 30days/mth x $.26/kwh = $84.24/mth / 4wks/mth = $21.06/wk
Then with the veg tent at around 300W plus fans etc you can almost double that. Our electric bill is around 400 - $500/mth for the whole place. Heating is all gas but everything else like hot water, stove etc is electric. Gas has been dirt cheap but going up a lot recently.
Growing more outside using autos should save a bunch as I can stock up in summer and just work on breeding projects in the winter and not have to fire up the 1000W to make a bunch of buds. Just started doing that the last couple years and expanding next summer. Hopefully 4 or 5 lbs next summer.
Hope Xmas is great for all!
0.60kwh x 18hrs/day x 30days/mth x $.26/kwh = $84.24/mth / 4wks/mth = $21.06/wk
Then with the veg tent at around 300W plus fans etc you can almost double that. Our electric bill is around 400 - $500/mth for the whole place. Heating is all gas but everything else like hot water, stove etc is electric. Gas has been dirt cheap but going up a lot recently.
Growing more outside using autos should save a bunch as I can stock up in summer and just work on breeding projects in the winter and not have to fire up the 1000W to make a bunch of buds. Just started doing that the last couple years and expanding next summer. Hopefully 4 or 5 lbs next summer.
Hope Xmas is great for all!
OldMedUser
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Ours is the same price all day so can't find savings there. No smart meters either tho. Alberta decided against them.
xtsho
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I run my lights off peak.All you guys get cheaper power then. I'm paying 26¢/kwh so for a 600W at 18hrs/day it's :
0.60kwh x 18hrs/day x 30days/mth x $.26/kwh = $84.24/mth / 4wks/mth = $21.06/wk
Then with the veg tent at around 300W plus fans etc you can almost double that. Our electric bill is around 400 - $500/mth for the whole place. Heating is all gas but everything else like hot water, stove etc is electric. Gas has been dirt cheap but going up a lot recently.
Growing more outside using autos should save a bunch as I can stock up in summer and just work on breeding projects in the winter and not have to fire up the 1000W to make a bunch of buds. Just started doing that the last couple years and expanding next summer. Hopefully 4 or 5 lbs next summer.
Hope Xmas is great for all!
| Time of Use period | Time of Use price | Basic Service price |
|---|---|---|
| On-peak | 12.380 ¢ per kWh | Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh |
| Mid-peak | 7.051 ¢ per kWh | Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh |
| Off-peak | 4.128 ¢ per kWh | Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh |
DoubleAtotheRON
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.26 cent per KWH US dollars? Never mind, I see you're in Alberta.... it's just shy of 9 cents per KWH here in Oklahoma across the board, no matter when you burn it.All you guys get cheaper power then. I'm paying 26¢/kwh so for a 600W at 18hrs/day it's :
0.60kwh x 18hrs/day x 30days/mth x $.26/kwh = $84.24/mth / 4wks/mth = $21.06/wk
Then with the veg tent at around 300W plus fans etc you can almost double that. Our electric bill is around 400 - $500/mth for the whole place. Heating is all gas but everything else like hot water, stove etc is electric. Gas has been dirt cheap but going up a lot recently.
Growing more outside using autos should save a bunch as I can stock up in summer and just work on breeding projects in the winter and not have to fire up the 1000W to make a bunch of buds. Just started doing that the last couple years and expanding next summer. Hopefully 4 or 5 lbs next summer.
Hope Xmas is great for all!
OldMedUser
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It's all US companies, (one Australian), here that run our power supply thanks to deregulation brought in almost 20 years ago by the now deceased, demented ex premier, Ralph Klein aka, King Ralph. They built a huge transmission line down to the states 10 years back to sell cheap power south and tacked the cost of building it onto homeowner's bills and we're still paying for it. Now they're after our water especially Cali now that the Colorado river is drying up. Cheap produce from Cali is becoming a thing of the past real fast but thanks to global warming we'll soon be growing that stuff up here. lol Bad year last year for most of north american food production so prices are jumping for most everything. Jug of milk has gone up a buck to about $6.50 for 4L now. A dozen large commercial eggs are going for $4 and my wife is still selling her jumbo organic for $3/dzn when those are over $6 at the store. We don't buy nothing that isn't on sale and there's lots less of that these days.
The US just doubled the tariff on softwood lumber from Canada and we of course have filed with NAFTA to fight it but you know how that will work out. Sheet of 3/8" plywood is over $100 now here and 8' 2x4s $15 each. Need a mortgage to build a new outhouse and ours needs replacing.
OldMedUser
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I'd kill for those rates. What's the times for the off-peak? I'd be happy with your On-peak rates.I run my lights off peak.
Time of Use period Time of Use price Basic Service price On-peak 12.380 ¢ per kWh Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh Mid-peak 7.051 ¢ per kWh Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh Off-peak 4.128 ¢ per kWh Up to 1000 kWh: 6.329 ¢ per kWh > 1000 kWh: 7.051 ¢ per kWh
Our base rate is 9.9¢ but once you factor in all the other charges it works out to 26.2¢ by the bill a couple months ago. Going up again soon so need to find a contract from one of the many providers out there for a bit of a better fixed rate if I still can. Procrastination ends up costing me most times.
We only have ATCO for the delivery and maintenance charges and they are double what it is down south tho the actual cost of the power is about the same. Fucked up system here so you guys get cheaper power. NAFTA fucked us the first time around and double-fucked us since tRump renegotiated it. Bully politics seems to work for you guys but thanks for keeping the Ruskies from invading.
xtsho
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California has been trying to get a water pipeline from the Columbia river through Oregon for decades.It's all US companies, (one Australian), here that run our power supply thanks to deregulation brought in almost 20 years ago by the now deceased, demented ex premier, Ralph Klein aka, King Ralph. They built a huge transmission line down to the states 10 years back to sell cheap power south and tacked the cost of building it onto homeowner's bills and we're still paying for it. Now they're after our water especially Cali now that the Colorado river is drying up. Cheap produce from Cali is becoming a thing of the past real fast but thanks to global warming we'll soon be growing that stuff up here. lol Bad year last year for most of north american food production so prices are jumping for most everything. Jug of milk has gone up a buck to about $6.50 for 4L now. A dozen large commercial eggs are going for $4 and my wife is still selling her jumbo organic for $3/dzn when those are over $6 at the store. We don't buy nothing that isn't on sale and there's lots less of that these days.
The US just doubled the tariff on softwood lumber from Canada and we of course have filed with NAFTA to fight it but you know how that will work out. Sheet of 3/8" plywood is over $100 now here and 8' 2x4s $15 each. Need a mortgage to build a new outhouse and ours needs replacing.
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That Colorado River water crisis is a man made joke. Stop building housing developments in the middle of the desert. Decades old water agreements between the states should be torn up, no new development until they have a realistic plan for supplying water. And stop watering all the worthless golf courses. There's almost 1000 golf courses in California they water during the summer. That's just a waste of water when agricultural land sits bone dry due to lack of water.
Cannabinoid Froyd
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I was looking at the price for me and it runs 13 cents per kwh. My heater is 1200w and it runs about half the day at 14.4kwh/day. Which works out to 52 bucks just for the heater. My plan is to move this out of the locked shed to the house and dump the electric radiator heater.
This is my plan to save $$ on electricity:
This is my plan to save $$ on electricity:
OldMedUser
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I'm pretty sure they didn't anticipate the population explosion that having that water available would produce. So much desert turned into agricultural land because of it. The movie Chinatown with Jack Nickleson is all about the dirty politics that went on over that in the 30s?
The Columbia River was dammed just south of the US border back in the 40s or something flooding a huge area of excellent farmland in BC. Whoever was in charge up here at the time signed off on a contract that ended up costing Canada money while supplying free electricity to the states for 50 years. That contract expired in the last few years so I'm not sure what the deal is now but I bet a lot of palms were greased back in the day to setup that deal that screwed us so royally. More dams were built downstream of that one since with little regard to the salmon runs that once made the Columbia one of the richest salmon rivers on the west coast of North America.
I have a cousin who has had until recently a fruit orchard on the north shore of the Columbia about 60 miles upstream from Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA while his dad and brother had big acreages on the south shore so they visited back and forth by jet boat. He had the same crew of Mexicans come every year for over 30 years to work his orchards. Spent a lot of money on decent housing and treated them well to make sure they wanted to come back each year. Retired and sold off the orchard in the last couple of years just before getting Mexican workers tanked thanks to tRump but still thinks tRump is great. The whole family is rich and love tRump but his tax cuts benefited them so there ya go.
Snow packs are a lot less than they used to be so water shortages are only going to get worse and the price for their veg here is already showing that. With all the ground cover lost to fires even a moderate rainstorm is going to cause flooding in places that never had them before so more 'natural' disasters are on the way.
This planet is FUBAR.
Milky Weed
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I need to figure out how to power my lights with a large array of hamster wheels
