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I think baseline is somewhere around 20 cents over baseline around here is something like 34 cents, it's crazy how cheap some people have it.
1000 watts @ one hour = 1 kWh
1000 watts @ 24 hours (one day) = 24 kWh
1000 watts @ 730 hours (all month) = 730 kWh
2000 watts @ 730 hours (all month) = 1460 kHw
1/2 that for 12/12 = 365 kWh
2 lights at 12/12 is = 730 kWh
So say 2 1000's watt lights running 12/12 = 730 kWh
Plus, say another 1000 @ 24 hrs for veg lights & fans @ 730 hours (all month) = 730 kWh
That comes to 1460 kWh a month.
At my rate it would $516 a month without household monthly usage.
Electricity costs out here (west coast) is what bites most people in the ass. Almost everyone I know is constantly back-paying multi-thousand dollar electricity bills.
Almost all the big grows steal electricity. Shit, even the smaller "whole house" grows steal electricity.
One of my buddies pays about $130 a day,almost $4000 a month. It's only a house sized grow.
Wow....thanx alot guys i think i am gonna boost up my grow...the flower was 2400w (4-600 hps)...and 400w veg...but what i hear from things, i may end of doin 3K flower and 1k veg......SOUNDS BETTER? HOPE TO GET ANYWHERE FROM 5-7 LBS. PERPETUAL EVERY MONTH....ND IT'LL PAY THA BILLS EASILY...AS SOMEONE SAID N THA THREAD ...THEY DO PAY GOOD FOR LBS...ON THE EAST....IM GONNA DO A LITTLE BE A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH THOUGH..OH AND DO YOU GUYS THINK 3-1000W LAMPS IS BETTER THAN 5-600W. LAMPS?
Is there a jaw-hitting-the-floor emoticon here? That's the increase in my monthly rates just for adding a 600W flowering room (with accoutrement draws--fans, electric blanket, etc.).Fuck me ....u guys in the US pay too much for hydro...no wonder we in Canada sell power to you guys .,...no one here would be crazy enough to pay those prices..
I run about 4000w all together..... it adds an extra $40-$50 a month to what my bill was before growing inside......
Is there a jaw-hitting-the-floor emoticon here? That's the increase in my monthly rates just for adding a 600W flowering room (with accoutrement draws--fans, electric blanket, etc.).
One of the big huge reasons our rates are so high in most of California are that the voters have voted down pretty much all attempts to build power generating plants, I'd like to say for at least the last 20 years. This doesn't begin to address the issues with the PUC and major utility suppliers, of course.
With a 3k flower and 1k veg, you're gonna probably be at around 6k by the time you factor in fans and AC etc.
With that setup you aint getting 5-7 per month...you mean per entire harvest right?
As for the 3-1k vs 5-600s you will get all kinds of answers. I will assume you are buying all the equipment from sctratch then for sure get the 3-1k far better value...also less ballasts = less things to go wrong.
what you need to also do is change all your light bulbs in the house get those energy saving ones that run like 7 watts each change out all those 75 watt bulbs by the time your done it will pay for a light itself.
The DWP are run by Nazi's here in SoCal. They owe the city like 123 Million and rather than pay or go to jail, the DWP refused to pay until the city last week, gave them a 4 cent increase in their rates.
This is truly a crime and the more I live where I do, the more I know the money is just being mis-appropriated and blown by Enron like white collar criminals. I guarantee the DWP is shifting their books to make things look all rosie. They have established a history or blackmailing the city and getting away with it (similar to the big banks and the feds). It's just a damn shame.
I am no conspiracy theorist and in fact hate this kind of thinking.
The DWP are simply straight crooks!
I simply pay this criminal piper and it looks like I will be paying him 4 cents more...
I run 1600W lights and a lot of fans and A/C and pay about $225 per month for my gardens power.