Electric costs

harrychilds

harrychilds

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I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?
 
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Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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harrychilds said:
I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?
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It's probably the heater using all your electricity. Find another source of heat.
 
piney420

piney420

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(actual light watts) x (hours you run your lights) = (watt hours), divide that by 1000 to get your kilowatt hours than multiply that by your electrical rate to give you cost per day for your light(s)

So 465 watts at 12 hours a day is 5580 watt hours, divide that by 1000 to get 5.58 kilowatt hours, multiply that by your electrical rate (0.20 example here) to get your cost per day of $1.12 (for lights only). Can use same formula with heater to find cost.
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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harrychilds said:
I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?
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You have expensive electric or a really cold house. That’s a lot of electricity tbh.
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Herb & Suds said:
Grow seasonally
Just because you want to grow year round doesn’t mean it is advisable
I’m skipping summer this year by doubling my yields this winter
A/C is even more costly
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A/c cost less to run. For instance my geothermal in the winter the compressor would run 238 watts to heat the house to 74 degrees and 37 watts to cool the house to 70. Cooling is easier and less cost on the building or growing.
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Lordhooha said:
A/c cost less to run. For instance my geothermal in the winter the compressor would run 238 watts to heat the house to 74 degrees and 37 watts to cool the house to 70. Cooling is easier and less cost on the building or growing.
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Well I think those numbers get thrown out the window once you introduce a half dozen hid’s
But in my case my heat is lower because natural gas cost are lower
 
bam0813

bam0813

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harrychilds said:
I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?
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It’s gotta be the heater imo. I used a 430 watt i think that ran like 22 -25 usd a month for the light
 
harrychilds

harrychilds

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Hollatchaboy said:
It's probably the heater using all your electricity. Find another source of heat.
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Would a smaller heater help? I only have it on low, it's a 2,000 watt oil filled radiator, just on the 1,000 watt setting, but it's on low. Do you know if it would still pull 1,000 watts from the mains even on low power?
 
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