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What's your electric bill each month?

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I am wondering what everyone's electric bill is each month? Also, list what your are running. I am about 1500watts (true watts) of LEDs, 2 inline fans, and a dehumidifier. My electric bill in the winter is consistently around $170.00 each month (with all my other standard household utilities). Summer time, it is slightly higher with the a/c running.
 
#2
Between $800-$1k a month running 4 se 600s & a 2.5 ton window ac, 70 pint dh, can fan, wall fans, & controller. Ca kwh power rates are up there, I dont really use the house ac in summer, house is too big to cost efficiently cool the space I hang out in most of the time. I like it hot anyway.
 
#3
My power bill is low enough where my landlord doesnt charge me extra lol.

250w hps.
600cfm fan
1 box fan.
air stone.
25w seedling light.


like $20-$25 a month for the garden.
Maybe $80-$100 total house in the winter?

One of the reasons i dont want to move away from that size ballast lol.
 
#4
Dbear180 said:
Between $800-$1k a month running 4 se 600s & a 2.5 ton window ac, 70 pint dh, can fan, wall fans, & controller. Ca kwh power rates are up there, I dont really use the house ac in summer, house is too big to cost efficiently cool the space I hang out in most of the time. I like it hot anyway.
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"up there" those rates are crazy high! your electric bill is as much as my mortgage!
 
#5
I haven't done the proper math but I know it's under $100/month and my cost/kw-hour is super high.
Flower:
315 watt cmh runs 12 hours/day
6 inch inline fan with speed controller set on lowest setting 20 hrs/day
2 - 8 inch honeywell stationary fans 24 hrs/day

Veg:
135 watt (actual wattage) viparspectra led (They claimed 300 watts lol) 16 hrs/day
4 inch inline fan with speed controller set on lowest setting 24 hrs/day
one 8 inch honeywell stationary fan 24 hrs/day

I also use two more inline fans during drying days or my whole property (and a few neighbors) would reek lol. One 4 inch right by the exhaust on the dry box and an 8 inch (low setting) in the lung room.
 
#6
Seraphine said:
"up there" those rates are crazy high! your electric bill is as much as my mortgage!
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Yeah we have tiers. The first two aren't bad but I think I'm paying like 40cents per kwh once I jump up to the fourth tier lol. I would change to time of use for a cheaper rate but then my daytime rate goes way up. It's a lose lose for indoor growers out here with so cal edison lol.
 
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Dbear180 said:
Yeah we have tiers. The first two aren't bad but I think I'm paying like 40cents per kwh once I jump up to the fourth tier lol. I would change to time of use for a cheaper rate but then my daytime rate goes way up. It's a lose lose for indoor growers out here with so cal edison lol.
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yah that peak demand rate is brutal here too. We have a massive hydro electric plant about 60 miles away.
 
#10
I pay $0.12kwh.
running 2x1000w se lamps, fans, dehu etc..
In the winter I'm about $300 per month including household power use for electric heat and lights etc.. My grow accounts for about half of that.
 
#13
BillFarthing said:
150 lights, 3-phase and a 99.9% uptime guarantee runs about $11k a month.
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Man we used to get bills like that... My buddy had the power bill in his name so he paid them but I remember he would go to the bank once every other month and lay down like $20000 cash in newly minted 20's to pay the damn power bill... lol. Nobody ever once batted an eye.
I believe we busted the myth that the cops will find you from your big power bill lol. In BC at least. This was pre-legalization.
 
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Dirtbag said:
Man we used to get bills like that... My buddy had the power bill in his name so he paid them but I remember he would go to the bank once every other month and lay down like $20000 cash in newly minted 20's to pay the damn power bill... lol. Nobody ever once batted an eye.
I believe we busted the myth that the cops will find you from your big power bill lol. In BC at least. This was pre-legalization.
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Generators and diesel fuel would have to be cheaper.
 
#15
Hidd3nGr0w said:
Generators and diesel fuel would have to be cheaper.
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Not as friendly in a residential neighborhood though. Though it did happen. I remember in Surrey BC around 2003 or so a guy a few blocks away got busted when the genny in his garage caught fire. He was powering two buried shipping containers in the backyard lol.
 
#16
So last year in Northern California I paid $720.00 for the year, nothing funny with the meter but I do have 7,000 Watts of solar PV. We run the A/C in the summer and have a plug in EV (electric car)to boot. So anyone in California especially should add some and get rid of those big bills. My system costs for the solar were in 2012 $20,000 for the panels, rails, supports (I installed the panels, retired electrical contractor), we paid a roofer $8,000 to install the supports after removing all the tiles, replacing the felt, re-installing the tiles and adding ridge vents along all the ridges, I didn’t want to dick around after the panels went in. The system has already paid for itself, in five years.
PS If anyone wanted to use micro-inverters you could scale the system adding more panels every year (to budget your expenses) till you got to the desired production level.
 
#17
Dirtbag said:
Man we used to get bills like that... My buddy had the power bill in his name so he paid them but I remember he would go to the bank once every other month and lay down like $20000 cash in newly minted 20's to pay the damn power bill... lol. Nobody ever once batted an eye.
I believe we busted the myth that the cops will find you from your big power bill lol. In BC at least. This was pre-legalization.
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I've always been told pay your bill & the electricity company has no reason to mess with you. You are a customer just like anyone else 😀
 
#20
My power bill was 125 this month, including gas and electricity.
 
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