How much total wattage do you run on your tanks?

[silverlude15]

For me I run a 135 gallon tank with 2x2217's and 300watts combined heater power, that's it. no lighting and no air pumps


so 2 x 2217 = 40 watts
300 watts heater (damn) = 300

340 watts total


how about you fine folks?

 

[aaronb]

180 gallon
Light=80
2x Q1 4000=130
Heater=300
Fx5=50
Maxijet 600=7.5
UV=9
Ranco TC=2
Total=578. 5

125 gallon
Heater=500
Eheim 2080=30
Fluval 406=15
Light=60
Total=605

55 gallon (1)
Q1 2200=45
Eheim 2213=8
Ranco TC=2
Light=30
Heater=150
Total=235

55 gallon (2)
Light=108
Rena XP3=19
Sunsun=35
Heater=150
Total=313

55 gallon (3)
Fluval G3=18
Eheim 2217=20
Heater=150
Light=130
Total=318

75 gallon
Q1 3000=55
Sunsun=35
Heater=250
Light=130
Total=470

Total of all tanks=2519.5 watts

 

[12 Volt Man]

30g:

20w light bulb
100w heater
7w Aquaclear: total: 127w

50g:
2x30w bulbs
150w heater
12w AC110: total: 222w

65g planted:

2x39w bulbs
200w heater
12w AC110: total: 290w

150g:
2x 28w rena XP3s
2x 250w heaters
4x30w bulbs
1 12w AC110: total: 688w

grand total: 1327w

 

[aaronb]

I looked online for the xp3 watts and it said 19. I saw a thread that said the filter head says 28 watts. I'll have to plug it into the kill a watt when I get home tomorrow to see what it says.

 

[12 Volt Man]

the stickers on the back of mine say 28w I believe.

 

[johnnycoolxx]

I thought that heaters only use power when they're actually heating the water. I mean, once the water has reached the set temperature, it shuts off and no power is used. So even if you have a 300W heater, you're not using 300W all day.

 

[F1 VET]

Same with the lites, and u fluval guys have auto shut off!

Dont fish generate watts? Oh thats ammonia :/

 

[silverlude15]

I thought that heaters only use power when they're actually heating the water. I mean, once the water has reached the set temperature, it shuts off and no power is used. So even if you have a 300W heater, you're not using 300W all day.

well during the winter months they generally stay on all day it seems

 

[aaronb]

I thought that heaters only use power when they're actually heating the water. I mean, once the water has reached the set temperature, it shuts off and no power is used. So even if you have a 300W heater, you're not using 300W all day.

Do you have a point?

 

[aaronb]

Do you have a point?

Actually I hope I didn't come off wrong asking this. I'm not sure why you were asking. The OP was just asking total watts. Unless you have a kill a watt and plug your heater in to see how many actual watts it's pulling and then see how many kilowatts it uses in a 24 hour period you'll never really know how much power your heater uses per hour on average. Also different times of year and even just different days will affect how much your heaters are on. Actually depending on the placement of the tank different times of day will make a difference too. We have our furnace on 50-65 when we're gone or asleep and 70-75 when we're awake and at home. The heaters will be on more at certain times. The heaters don't draw power when they're off though. My ranco controller for my heaters do use 2 watts though.