Grow light 250w

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#23

Salutations Worcestershire_Farms,

Read the manufacturer’s documentation to find out if life-style variations invalidate such critical information being collected at least 288 times a day in 3 different dimensions: Voltage, Current and Phase… It’s recorded data anyway, hence data mining can be performed much later when found convenient.

Exactly!

So, if anyone thinks crystal-precision (time-coherent) 12/12 transitions jumping back-and-forth between 0 and 1 KW each time might magically elude the radar with a lossless antenna linked directly to the target signal source, euh… Well then i’m unable to reason further on these matters.

Good day, have fun!! :peace:

#24

Sometimes it is not so easy to calculate price per kilowatthour (kWh) because supplying company differentiates between price for energy and distribution costs. See example below…

There is only $0.09 per kilowatthour for energy - marked as “Generation”
but another $41.96 for Distribution charges…

So more appropriate would be to take total monthly payment $106.62 and divide it by kWh Billed for the month (from actual reading) because effectively the price we are talking about should include all costs (and these may differ according to different providers and tariffs).

$106.62 / 698 kWh = $0.15 per kWh

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#25

That’s a damn good point LemonadeJoe.

#26

that seems very expensive. in manitoba standard residential is 7.381 cents and basic charge of $7.28 for under 200 amps or $14.56 over 200 amps

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#27

Dude, that’s dumb cheap! The cheapest rate I’ve paid this year was around .16usd / kWh, as high as .22 /kwh

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#28

yeah so i guess i’m paying 6 cents usd. i want to work from home for american money. it’d be way better!

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#29

Are you factoring in distribution charges too?
For example, a 500kWh bill costs you ~$40cdn

At face value they say they only charge me $.09 but the distribution charges double that number

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#30

My actual electric bill, payment slip and personal data hidden. Meter number scratched out

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A little over .10cents kw , a little under $4.50 a day

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#31

Nice! Ten bucks over ten cent per kwh, that’s a good price. F#$+ the electric company, I’m hooking a stationary bike up to the grid and losing some weight!

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#32

I have a set of solar panels in the garage that I haven’t figured out how to utilize because of the “smart” meter will detect use as a back feed , my panels are capable of 300w/hr. I could theoretically run 1(one) 250w HPS on them. Besides my degree as an industrial electrician I am also certified as a solar energy installer.

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#33

there is no distribution charges in manitoba. basic charge of 8.08, usage charges of 0.08196 per kwh then 2.5% city tax, 8% province tax, 5% GST and 5% GST on city tax. these are the actual numbers from the bill. previous numbers were obtained from manitoba hydros website. factoring in all charges the total is 0.1045$ per kwh

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#34

You’re in Massachusetts! We pay the highest rate in the USA. I don’t even look at my bill, I don’t want to know how bad it is! :anguished:

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#35

Yea mines sitting at .10 kwh

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#36

As others have posted, it depends on your electric and service rate, taxes, etc. Also how long you run your lights for; 12/12, 20/4, 24/0, etc. Here we pay 9.8 cents a KwHr, and another 2.3 cents per KwHr for distribution, service fees and taxes. So its basically 12 cents a Kwhr. Some pay as high as 24 cents. In California its a sliding scale; the more you use, the more you pay per KwHr! At least with PG&E that was the case when I lived there.

Some examples, using 12 cents per KwHr as a low and 24 cents as a high, low/high in $USD, using a 30 day month:

32W T-8 pair on 20/4, 1.28 KW/day, $0.15/0.30 per day, $4.50/9.00 a month
32W T-8 pair on 24/0, 1.54 KW/day, $0.18/0.36 per day, $5.40/10.80 a month

100W floro on 20/4, 2.0 KW/day, $0.24/0.48 per day, $7.20/14.40 a month
100W floro on 24/0, 2.4 KW/day, $0.29/0.58 per day, $8.64/17.28 a month

250W floro on 12/12, 3 KW/day, $0.36/0.72 per day, $10.80/21.60 a month
250W floro on 20/4, 5.0 KW/day, $0.60/1.20 per day, $18.00/36.00 a month
250W floro on 24/0, 6.0 KW/day, $0.72/1.44 per day, $21.60/43.20 a month

400W HID on 12/12, 4.8 KW/day, $0.58/1.16 per day, $17.40/34.80 per month
400W HID on 20/4, 8.0 KW/day, $0.96/1.92 per day, $28.80/57.60 a month
400W HID on 24/0, 9.6 KW/day, $1.15/2.30 per day, $34.56/69.12 a month

1000W HID on 12/12, 12 KW/day, $1.44/2.88 per day, $43.20/86.40 per month
1000W HID on 20/4, 20 KW/day, $2.40/4.80 per day, $72/144 per month (yes, spendy!)
1000W HID on 24/0, 24 KW/day, $2.88/5.76 per day, $86/173 per month (yes, even more spendy!)

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#37

That’s cheap, how many watts you run on indoor grow space?

#38

My reply for @GumbyBuds,
I am using 2x400w MH & 3x 250 HPS that’s 800w&750w in the big glow but I am also running a bunch of fluorescent bulbs on the veg side. There are baseboard electric heaters in the basement grow room they typically don’t run alot

#39

My god that is cheap, my bill is like $160 and I only run a 600watt hps, normally without its $65-70 but $35 of it is a delivery charge… New England seems to be some of the highest rates :scream:

#40

My utility (UPPCO) has the highest cost per Kw in the US midwest, maybe the highest in USA. $0.22/Kw not including state tax. The rest of Michigan is @ $0.15. My cost in veg is $95.00 incl. A/C & fans. $70.00 during flowering. So, I’m moving to LED’s.

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You got to go solar!

They put the panels on my roof for nothing.

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#42

Couldnt you set up your pannels and just plug/wire them to your grow light only and not the sytem…there would be no feedback that way???asking.