Cost of big tanks
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Here's a pretty handy calculator if you don't want to do the math yourself.
http://www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/ElectricalConsumption.php
http://www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/ElectricalConsumption.php
Calc is pretty cool. How do you know how to judge what your using.
Say an fx6 uses 43 watts. Is that 43 watts every hour ?
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43 watts all the time while plugged in continuous till you unplug it
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Yup, you guys got it right.
Electric companies charge you by the kWh (kilowatt hour) which is essentially a unit of energy that equals a 1,000W device running for one hour (it's a measure of the wattage consumed by the device over a period of time of one hour).
So to get the kWh used by an FX6 that draws 43 watts you would divide 43 by 1000 = .043kWh (.043 Killowatts is how much energy the FX6 draws per hour).
To determine how many kWh the filter uses per day, you multiply .043 by 24 hours = 1.032kWh
Since we now know how many kWhrs the filter uses per day (1.032), we can then multiply that by 30 days to get us the amount of energy used over a month 1.032 x 30 = 30.96kWhrs.
To figure out how much the electric company will charge you per month, multiply 30.96kWhrs by whatever their rate is. The national average is $0.11/kWh, so if you're paying the national average you multiply 30.96kwh x $0.11 = $3.04 per month.
Hope that helps.
Electric companies charge you by the kWh (kilowatt hour) which is essentially a unit of energy that equals a 1,000W device running for one hour (it's a measure of the wattage consumed by the device over a period of time of one hour).
So to get the kWh used by an FX6 that draws 43 watts you would divide 43 by 1000 = .043kWh (.043 Killowatts is how much energy the FX6 draws per hour).
To determine how many kWh the filter uses per day, you multiply .043 by 24 hours = 1.032kWh
Since we now know how many kWhrs the filter uses per day (1.032), we can then multiply that by 30 days to get us the amount of energy used over a month 1.032 x 30 = 30.96kWhrs.
To figure out how much the electric company will charge you per month, multiply 30.96kWhrs by whatever their rate is. The national average is $0.11/kWh, so if you're paying the national average you multiply 30.96kwh x $0.11 = $3.04 per month.
Hope that helps.
Yup understood ....very cool thread... needless to say I will prob be using this on every damn thing we have plugged into the house lol
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Yeah, it's interesting to see how much you're paying to have the TV on, lights, etc. It really makes you realize that having lights on around the house that don't need to be on is like burning money for no reason.
I have roommates so I wanted to make sure I was paying for all electricity that my tank uses. It's easy enough to determine what most equipment uses, but heaters are a different story (the amount they come on varies depending on the room temps, time of year etc). So I bought a little device called a kill-a-watt that tracks how much anything you plug into it uses. They're only like 20 bucks, but they are pretty cool. I was surprised to see that for some equipment, the advertised wattage was much lower than their true power consumption. Some pumps I tested used almost 20% more energy than advertised (kinda ticked me off).
So are you getting a 300, William?
