Where can I find a energy consumption meter?
- Zest-Fully-Clean
-1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
-2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
-1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
-1 Air purifier (40 watts)
-1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
Total = 900 watt
Is it true that a 40 watt bulb cost 1 cents per hour to use? If that is true
then that means I am spending 22.5 cents per hour. (900/40 = amount $
consumption.)
Question: Where can I find a energy consumption meter, so I can measure my
power consumption?
Me
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> Can someone help me find a way to know how much it cost to use:
> -1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
> -2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
> -1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
> -1 Air purifier (40 watts)
> -1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
> Total = 900 watt
>
> Is it true that a 40 watt bulb cost 1 cents per hour to use? If that is
true
> then that means I am spending 22.5 cents per hour. (900/40 = amount $
> consumption.)
Why do you need a meter? Just figure out how much one watt of electricity
costs you (or a kilowatt) per hour. This is probably on your electric bill.
With that info, all you have to do is multiple the number of watts times the
cost times the number of hours you typically use each of the appliances on
your list. Its very simple math.
Kpnorm
Raven
You get charged by the Killowatt hour. That means
onthousand watts for one hour.....
the going rate is usually between 6-10 cents per KWH.
so a 100 watt light bulb if you left it on for one hour would use 1/10th of
a kilowatt hour or aobout 3/4 of a pennys worth of electricity.
But big users of juice like ovens an heaters are a different matter.
a oven (regular kitchen size) uses 5000 watts per hour, and would cost
about 50 cents an hour to run, same with a hot water heater (bear in mind it's
not
heating water constantly but goes on and off as you use hot water).
Your example of 900 watts is .9 kw and will cost between 5 and 9 cents
an hour to leave it ALL running 24 hours a day.
Check YOUR electric bill for the exact amount your getting charged.
Some companys charge one amount for the first say.... 500 KWH and then
increase the amount per KWH after that...... (encourages conservation)
the less you use the better rate you get.....
Chris Clarke
"- Zest-Fully-Clean" <No...@all.folks> wrote in message
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> -1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
> -2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
> -1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
> -1 Air purifier (40 watts)
> -1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
> Total = 900 watt
>
> Is it true that a 40 watt bulb cost 1 cents per hour to use? If that is
true
> then that means I am spending 22.5 cents per hour. (900/40 = amount $
> consumption.)
Are you in a house? Then you should have a meter, usually outside.
Suppose that you pay 5 cent per kilowatt-hour for electricity. Then running
that
bulb for one hours give you:
(1 kilowatt)
40 watt * (1 hour) = 40 watt-hours * -------------------- = 0.04
kilowatt-hours
(1000 watts)
cents
0.04 kilowatt-hours * 5 ----------------- = 0.2 cents
kilowatt-hour
OR four cents per day, if you use it eight hours a day.
Hope that this helps.
Chris
Ray L.
>
> "- Zest-Fully-Clean" <No...@all.folks> wrote in message
> news:r7Ju5.39$3V5....@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
> > Can someone help me find a way to know how much it cost to use:
> > -1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
> > -2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
> > -1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
> > -1 Air purifier (40 watts)
> > -1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
> > Total = 900 watt
> >
> > Is it true that a 40 watt bulb cost 1 cents per hour to use? If that is
> true
> > then that means I am spending 22.5 cents per hour. (900/40 = amount $
> > consumption.)
>
> Are you in a house? Then you should have a meter, usually outside.
Our meters often have a correction factor that must be used
to arrive at the actual amount of energy used. It is
the "Kh factor" printed on a plaque inside the meter
Nick Pine
>a oven (regular kitchen size) uses 5000 watts per hour...
Nonono. Just watts. Watts are already a RATE of energy consumption,
so "watts per hour" are nonsense, like "miles per hour per hour."
Nick
Chris Clarke
"Nick Pine" <ni...@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu> wrote in message
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Not to be a nudge, but "miles per hour per hour" is called acceleration. :)
Chris
David Lind
"- Zest-Fully-Clean" <No...@all.folks> wrote:
> Can someone help me find a way to know how much it cost to use:
> -1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
> -2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
> -1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
> -1 Air purifier (40 watts)
> -1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
> Total = 900 watt
>
A stereo uses much less power. The 330 watt rating is a maximum the unit can
output into speakers before a certain measure of distortion is produced, not
a measure of energy it is drawing continuosly. -- David
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
georges
>Can someone help me find a way to know how much it cost to use:
>-1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
>-2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
>-1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
>-1 Air purifier (40 watts)
>-1 Yamaha stereo (330 watts)
>Total = 900 watt
>Question: Where can I find a energy consumption meter, so I can measure my
>power consumption?
http://www.brandelectronics.com/
recommended
--georges
Andrew Shieh
>"- Zest-Fully-Clean" <No...@all.folks> wrote in message
>news:r7Ju5.39$3V5....@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
>> Can someone help me find a way to know how much it cost to use:
>> -1 Computer 40 watts, monitor 50 watts,
>> -2 Light bulbs (50 watts each)
>> -1 Panasonic A/C that says ($48/year energy cost pasted on the side)
>
>Why do you need a meter? Just figure out how much one watt of electricity
>costs you (or a kilowatt) per hour. This is probably on your electric bill.
The reason you might want a meter is that these appliances do not all
constantly draw the same amount of electricity when on. For example,
the computer has energy saving modes, and the A/C cycles on and off. A
meter such as this one:
http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop3.cfm?dv=3&dp=302&ts=1025344&kw=meter
can measure the energy usage over a long periods of time.
>> Is it true that a 40 watt bulb cost 1 cents per hour to use?
It depends on your electricity cost. If it is $.15/kW-h:
$.15/kW-h * .04 kW = $.006/hr
An equivalent electronic-ballast compact fluorescent uses about 1/4 of
the power for the same light output, lasts many times longer, and
produces much less heat.
-Zest-Fully-Clean
Nope
>Are you in a house?
My house does not have a meter. I live in a duplex, and I can see my energy
wheel with binoculars across the fence to my neigbor's house, but they
dislike people with binoculars.
It's good to know that electricity is cheap, someone even mentioned a 0.006
cents per hour using a 40 watt fan. Amazing! And their is actually a power
meter for sale. Thanks for the links, folks.
Thanks for everyone's informative replies. They are very informative.
-Zest
"It's not fully clean, until it's Zest-fully-clean!"
GH...@webtv.net
40w means it can be on for 250hrs to eat up 1 kw for about 8cents some
places 10cents . Depends where you live.
Nick Pine
Upon further arithmetical reflection, you may find that to be 25 hours.
Nick