TimDoss
Second Unit
- Joined
- Jun 10, 1999
- Messages
- 298
Ahhh... electric bills.... mine for july and august were embarrassingly high.
Here in CA, edison has developed a new tiered pricing, where the first
10kwh a day are about 9 or 10 cents, up to 30% over your 10kwh is still
9 or ten cents.... above that and the rate goes to about 63 cents per kwh.
Worse than a damn cell phone.
I think what was driving mine for the most part was my family leaving on
their ceiling fans all day long, on high... four of them at about 100 watts
each adds up quick. They used up a good portion of my alotted 10kwh a
day.
I bought, from amazon.com a device called "kill-a-watt meter"... you plug
whatever you want into it, computer, refrigerator, home theater, and it will
tell you how many watts it's sucking down.
Great investment for finding ways to cut down on usage. I was very
surprised at what is being used.
The key is to not look at what each one supposedly costs per hour, but
to look at how many kwh's your pulling and try to keep that down to
what you're alotted.
And as for you being an electricity nazi.... I'm probably worse... if my wife want's
to run the AC, I make her go without tv for as long as she wants to run the air.
One or the other. Still trying to convince her though that those damn evil clothes
she's wearing that's making her hot.
Here in CA, edison has developed a new tiered pricing, where the first
10kwh a day are about 9 or 10 cents, up to 30% over your 10kwh is still
9 or ten cents.... above that and the rate goes to about 63 cents per kwh.
Worse than a damn cell phone.
I think what was driving mine for the most part was my family leaving on
their ceiling fans all day long, on high... four of them at about 100 watts
each adds up quick. They used up a good portion of my alotted 10kwh a
day.
I bought, from amazon.com a device called "kill-a-watt meter"... you plug
whatever you want into it, computer, refrigerator, home theater, and it will
tell you how many watts it's sucking down.
Great investment for finding ways to cut down on usage. I was very
surprised at what is being used.
The key is to not look at what each one supposedly costs per hour, but
to look at how many kwh's your pulling and try to keep that down to
what you're alotted.
And as for you being an electricity nazi.... I'm probably worse... if my wife want's
to run the AC, I make her go without tv for as long as she wants to run the air.
One or the other. Still trying to convince her though that those damn evil clothes
she's wearing that's making her hot.