400watt HPS costed me 95$ a month?

[N1XON™]

i ran my 400 hps 18/6 and it was 95$ on my electric bill XD didnt think it would be that much.. im in ny

some one help me out with this im a bit new

 

[Aurora_Indicas_Dad]

damn,i hope my 2 600 watt lights dont cost me that much to run.i was expecting a jump in the bill,somewhere around that for (2) 600 watt lights,if you got charged that much for your 400..imagine me with the 2 600 watt lights..im gonna be f***ed! lol thanks for the thread.i wonder why it made your bill go so much higher.how many kilo watt hours did you have on the bill before,as to the new bill with the 400 watt usage on it?

 

[camcam]

Am from the UK, but that price seems ok to me.

 

[lyfr]

wow, i barely noticed a difference in my bill from a 400(cal). i figured it at about 20 bucks.

 

[lyfr]

how much $ per KWH?

 

[Puffin Afatty]

i ran my 400 hps 18/6 and it was 95$ on my electric bill XD didnt think it would be that much.. im in ny

some one help me out with this im a bit new

the way I figger might be wrong, but looking at my math

18 hours per day times 30 days equals 540 hours.

540 hours times 400 watts equals 216000 watt hours divided by 1000 equals 216 Kilo Watt Hours. 216 KWH times 0.07 [7 cents per kwh] equals

$15.12 for 30 days use of a 400w bulb running 18 hours per day.:hubba:

I'd say either you or I did the math wrong, OR you are paying 6 times as much for your electricity.

 

[snuggles]

Yeah something is wrong, there is no way unless NY is way outa control with electric. Have you been running some AC maybe? I have had 3 400s and 2 600s going 24 hours and I didn't pay much more than you.

 

[Aurora_Indicas_Dad]

yea dude,thats steep.i dont know if i'll beable to offord to run (2) 600 watt mh/hps's is they tax me that bad.that would put my bill at 350..either way though,let us know what they charged you for the previous month (including how many kwh) and let us knwo what it was this month.we can figure out if its their mess up in 20 secs.the kwh is the same no matter how many your usin. on this electric bill im lookin at right now,they charged me $32.96 (plus tax) for 308 kwh.

 

[Puffin Afatty]

yea dude,thats steep.i dont know if i'll beable to offord to run (2) 600 watt mh/hps's is they tax me that bad.that would put my bill at 350..either way though,let us know what they charged you for the previous month (including how many kwh) and let us knwo what it was this month.we can figure out if its their mess up in 20 secs.the kwh is the same no matter how many your usin. on this electric bill im lookin at right now,they charged me $32.96 (plus tax) for 308 kwh.

Again, my math might be suspect, it's been a long time since school, but that works out to around 11 cents per KWH.

 

[Aurora_Indicas_Dad]

yea,its like 10 cents per kwh for me (in michigan) and 34 sects per kwh for n1xom in NY....somethings wrong..no way your payin that much more than us michiganders. and since were on the subject of ac..i just constructed my fan its own 2x4 frame (so the kids cant get their fingers in and get em cut off by the blade) im not even gonna be usin ac this summer,this fan cools off my whole house down stairs,and ill have a fan in my grow room.i'll be doin my laundry at the laundry mat,i use all energy saving bulbs throughout the house,im even gonna turn the hot water heater down just so the water gets as hot as i need it to shower. its all about keepin that electric bill down so they dont investigate. its all about mary jane when your growin.you do for her and she'll return the favor =) -peace

 

[Tater]

My two 400 watts run and all my fans and pumps run me about 40 bucks a month.

 

[IRISH]

9cents kwh, in my parts of mich. running me like 20-24 month to run my 400w hps.

 

[gcarlin_818]

LOL i applied for an energy assistance program....so the city helps me pay for my grow thanks sin city.......

 

[wakebud77]

A/c? Lights on in other parts of the house? TV's? Computers? What else is in your setup? Any odor things you use? anyone possibly stealing your power for the same reason?

 

[N1XON™]

OK well thanks alot we did the math again and it came to about $20 a month my partner forgot to move the decimal place XD

 

[wakebud77]

hahaha lol wow well now we all know how responsive and "green" our community is

 

[N1XON™]

lol yeah XD

 

[Aurora_Indicas_Dad]

lol,i thaught you got a bill for that.you're just tryin to guesstimate how much its gonna be.

9cents kwh, in my parts of mich. running me like 20-24 month to run my 400w hps.

that sounds right,i pay somewhere between 9 and 10 per kwh so with two 600 watt lights
1200 x 18hrs=21600
21600x 31 days=669600
669600 dived by 1,000=669.60
669.60 kwh x .09 cents per kwh= $60.26
so $60.26 during veg (if i run the lights only 18 hrs) and $40.18 during flowering. its a little hike in energy..but i dont think it'll be enough for them to investigate me. anyways,glad you got that cleared up-peace

 

[N1XON™]

yeah me to.. i was like *** when he told me it was 95$.. then we just stared at it for 2 days then redid it a few times and then saw what we were doing wrong XD.. slap my self D D D

 

[spLIFTED]

over here we have this crap called peak hours and when we use it during peak hours the cost it higher pkw while off peak hours its cheaper. however I can never seem to find a actual number on any website when i searched...