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How much money in electricity in US dollars
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do you think it takes to heat up a AA 941 and keep at 15 psi for an hour or two? Just interested if anyone has a guess. I use a broil king electric double burner unit I bought for about 20-30 dollars, btw.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: chobumms]
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does ur post make sense to you?

r u just asking how much money it costs to run an electric burner for a couple hours


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: just me]
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A couple cents max dude. You won't have that much of a bill increase.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: just me]
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just me said:
does ur post make sense to you?

r u just asking how much money it costs to run an electric burner for a couple hours


Yes, and yes. I'm not asking ya'll to be master el;ectric engineers, I'm just asking opinions. like 50 cents? two dollars? 5 dollars? I mean, I know if it's forty degrees in the house it'll make a difference. Just wanted your opinions.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: chobumms]
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If you told me your stoves wattage I could tell you the cost (include your electric rate too). It's not very hard to do it's simple multiplication. At most you may have to do a conversion from watts to kilowatts. Which would take like 2 seconds to do. But seriously man it can't be more than a couple cents. Hydroponic grow lights are only a couple cents to a dollar a day and I'm sure those have about the same or more wattage than a modern stove.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: ronjohn7779]
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Even though I think this is the most ridiculous question ever asked in the pursuit of cultivation, I'd like to add that most electrical companies have higher costs for a watt during peak use hours than they do at non-peak hours. So using electricity at 1pm may be cheaper than using it at 1am, but the monetary difference between them is probably the difference of rounding a cent up or down.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: c1dh3d]
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Nothing crazy about trying to figure out your electric costs, I do it all the time with my appliances to cut down on my bill.

It's pretty simple to get a rough idea.  First you need to find the watt useage on your item in question, in this case your stove.

You're billed in kWh (kilo watt hour).  That's 1000 watts used for 1 hour.  If you turned on a 100 watt light bulb and let it run for an hour, that's 0.1 kWh. 

You'll have to check your electric bill to see what they charge, last time I checked it was something like 8 cents for me.  So a 100 watt lightbulb running for 10 hours would cost me 8 cents.

Lets assume you're using an AA 75x-120 Sterilizer though. It's about the same size as an AA941 but has it's own built in heating element.

This thing uses up to 1650 watts.

I would probably run it for 90 minutes on average (for pints/quarts).
(30 mins to heat up, 60 mins to cook) (i'm just assuming here).

Let's assume it's on max power for 30 mins to heat up then half power for 60 mins to keep the PSI stabilized.

0.825 kWh for the warm up
0.825 kWh for to keep warm
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1.650 kWh
13.2 cents (for me)

Now for comparison, I have an electric radiator heater I turn on when it's really cold or if I have guests over that are used to warmer houses  (it's bout 40f in my place atm, and I have a window open for fresh air :-D) (34f outside atm)

On maximum it runs about 1500 watts (1.5 kWh PER hour on high)
Lets say I was like my mom and liked the heat on 80f and used this thing 24/7 in the winter.

There's 28 days in feb, 24 hours in a day. 672 hours in the month.
That's 1008 kWh or $81 just to run that heater all month and that's just ONE little heater that can barely heat a room!

So I save a couple hundred a month in the winter by just putting a hoodie on instead of turning on the heat.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: c1dh3d]
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c1dh3d said:
Even though I think this is the most ridiculous question ever asked in the pursuit of cultivation, I'd like to add that most electrical companies have higher costs for a watt during peak use hours than they do at non-peak hours. So using electricity at 1pm may be cheaper than using it at 1am, but the monetary difference between them is probably the difference of rounding a cent up or down.


really? more ridiculous than, "I bought these mushrooms, will I get fucked up?" as a first post? not a chance in hell. But thanks, I didn't know this.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: ronjohn7779]
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ronjohn7779 said:
If you told me your stoves wattage I could tell you the cost (include your electric rate too). It's not very hard to do it's simple multiplication. At most you may have to do a conversion from watts to kilowatts. Which would take like 2 seconds to do. But seriously man it can't be more than a couple cents. Hydroponic grow lights are only a couple cents to a dollar a day and I'm sure those have about the same or more wattage than a modern stove.


Yeah, agreed on the wattage of grow lights. I knew I was going to get flamed, but I'm thinking of growing commercially for edibles, so I thought I'd ask.


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: chobumms]
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chobumms said:
c1dh3d said:
Even though I think this is the most ridiculous question ever asked in the pursuit of cultivation, I'd like to add that most electrical companies have higher costs for a watt during peak use hours than they do at non-peak hours. So using electricity at 1pm may be cheaper than using it at 1am, but the monetary difference between them is probably the difference of rounding a cent up or down.


really? more ridiculous than, "I bought these mushrooms, will I get fucked up?" as a first post? not a chance in hell. But thanks, I didn't know this.


Close :smile: Very close!


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: c1dh3d]
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No more than 20 cents to run a pressure cooker for a two hour cycle, and that 20 cent figure is based on you living in a high cost area.  If you're getting power for 5 cents per kwh, you probably won't spend over a dime for a two hour cycle.  All you have to do is look at your last bill and see what they charge per kwh(one thousand watts of power for one hour) and multiply it by 2, for a MAXIMUM that you'll pay.  It will probably be less because you turn down the stove when pressure is reached.

If you have an electric water heater, it costs more than that every time you take a shower.
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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: RogerRabbit]
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what about gas  :poke:


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Re: How much money in electricity in US dollars [Re: RogerRabbit]
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RogerRabbit said:
No more than 20 cents to run a pressure cooker for a two hour cycle, and that 20 cent figure is based on you living in a high cost area.  If you're getting power for 5 cents per kwh, you probably won't spend over a dime for a two hour cycle.  All you have to do is look at your last bill and see what they charge per kwh(one thousand watts of power for one hour) and multiply it by 2, for a MAXIMUM that you'll pay.  It will probably be less because you turn down the stove when pressure is reached.

If you have an electric water heater, it costs more than that every time you take a shower.
RR


Thanks, all I was looking for was this simple answer, not to get flamed. There's no need to flame. I'm just putting together overhead costs. You fail to plan, you plan to fail...


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