Does anyone know how much power this consumes? The manual states 90 watts, but I don't know if this is for the low, medium, or high setting. At 90 watts, it would be 788.5 kwhs/year, which where I live would be $127.55/year in electricity.
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I can't say for sure, but it stands to reason that this would be the maximum power consumption if for no other reason than a safety issue. I've had two of these running in my house since July 3, and haven't noticed a marked increase in my power bill. I leave them on automatic and they run on the low (very quite) speed until the sensor detects dust or what ever in the air then they ramp up the speed. Depending upon how much dirt is present, they usually don't stay at med or hi speed very long. The only thing I don't like about these units is the pretty blue lighted ring that changes from blue to purple to red depending on the amount of dirt present. I use one in the bedroom at night locked on medium speed for the white noise it puts out and I had to rig up a cover over the blue ring because in a dark room it is very bright.
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With 12 hours a day usage, it should be around 1 kw a week or 50 Kw a year. The problem though, is that due to the bad quality of the unit, they turn into permanently "ON" lights after some few weeks of use and the electricity consumption will raise along. I do not recommend anybody to purchase this unit
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Hi Mr. Hogan,I installed a Kill-A-Watt from Radio Shack tonight. While using an internal Seagate 500GB hard drive the meter shows usage is 5 Watts and .07 amp draw. The figures are different from one electric provider to the next. As an example, my local electric company charges me 12 cents per kWh during peak season and 11 cents during off peak season. It's costing me $5.26 per/year running 24/7/365.It's been running flawlessly since December 25, 2012. Yes, over a year and I share family pictures to lots of family members. Very easy to use.I hope this helps.Thanks,Terry Mundy Hi Mr. Hogan,I installed a Kill-A-Watt from Radio Shack tonight. While using an internal Seagate 500GB hard drive the meter shows usage is 5 Watts and .07 amp draw. The figures are different from one electric provider to the next. As an example, my local electric company charges me 12 cents per kWh during peak season and 11 cents during off peak season. It's costing me $5.26 per/year running 24/7/365.It's been running flawlessly since December 25, 2012. Yes, over a year and I share family pictures to lots of family members. Very easy to use.I hope this... » Read More Hi Mr. Hogan,I installed a Kill-A-Watt from Radio Shack tonight. While using an internal Seagate 500GB hard drive the meter shows usage is 5 Watts and .07 amp draw. The figures are different from one electric provider to the next. As an example, my local electric company charges me 12 cents per kWh during peak season and 11 cents during off peak season. It's costing me $5.26 per/year running 24/7/365.It's been running flawlessly since December 25, 2012. Yes, over a year and I share family pictures to lots of family members. Very easy to use.I hope this helps.Thanks,Terry Mundy « Show Less
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Do lots more research before making any purchase. You saying 750KWH/month says to me (750 / 30) 25KWh/day. If that were solar panels, that would be about 12,500 Watts of solar panels in a 2 sun/hour day area. Somehow I expect you mean something else, tho some homes use that.
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Thanks very much for the response. After entering my question, I figured out how to fake it myself with what I've got. I just put the cost of electricity at 1.00 per kWh. So now after any amount of time, instead of it telling me how much money I've used each month/year, etc... I just read how many kWh I've used each time period. Sometimes you have to be smarter than the $20 device, but it isn't always easy. :)
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In the booklet it comes with, it says: Input Voltage: 120VAC/60 Hz. Power Consumption at 1.0 min./working: 650 watts/60 watts Im assuming this means its uses 650 watts per minute. It also says it takes 3-5mins to heat up. We just got ours and we live off grid on solar power. I wished I had asked this question before I bought it, because we only have a 300 Watt inverter, so we wont be able to use this. AND, Lava just flowed into my town of Pahoa yesterday, so no more post office service soon. I'd have to drive over an hour to get to a post office and return it, so I might just keep it, and save up for a bigger inverter. I just called Purple Cows and, after being on hold for a minute, I was asked to leave a message and told that someone would call me back. That was at 12:23 I got a call back at
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Actually on high it uses 1500 watts (1389 showing on my meter) and 900 watts on low. Previous models of these that I own offered three wattage options; 500, 1000, and 1500. So I miss the lower 500 watt option - not available on this newer model.
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The unit itself would draw practically no current either on or off. It may cost over a dollar a year to operate if you pay $0.15 per Kwh for electricity.
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I estimate about $0.20/hour at my current electric cost of 0.13472634 kWt. That would be at the full 1500 kWt setting but I usually use the Low setting, which still kicks out a lot of heat.
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Is that 50mw per year? If so how much would that be in dollars? thxRe: USB Charger/Tamper Resistant Outlet cat. no T5630 idle current draw?It is below 50mw as compared to Cooper who was twice ours and Pass & Seymour which was over 4 times ours.
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If you used this heater 12 hours per day on the high setting (1500W), this is approximately what you'd have: 1500Wx12Hx30D=540,000W per month or 540Kw. For average utility electricity averaging about 10 cents per Kw that would give you monthly usage amount of around 54 dollars. We use this heater in conjunction with central heating and not as an addition. We are actually seeing our normal monthly bill drop.
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The unit itself has no power-consumption rating that I can see. If I had to guess, I'd say it consumes probably as much power as a night-light, or less. The unit itself is basically a volt/amp meter coupled with a display - none of these are power-hungry components.
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This unit will use a 1.5 kilowatts per hour. So based on usage and your local electricity rates you will see what you average cost will be.
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The online specs rate the power supply at 1Amp @ 120VAC. May be someone else will have the power adapter handy and be able to read its label for you. The unit only consumes 36Watts.
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It uses 1500 watts per hour. In my area electricity is about 14 cents/kilowatt. So, if you use if for three hours per day that would be 135 kilowatts per month and cost $18.90/month. I use it to help heat our finished basement (14ftx42ft) and it does a great job. It's not cost effective to have it on all day long, but if I know I'm going to be in the basement I'll set if for 3-4 hours. It'll take the temp from 65 degrees up to 69 in well under an hour (more like 30-40 minutes).
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It doesn't. I don't know how they got the figure. I guess they assume you run it less then 2 hours a day. I pay $0.11 a kWh so according to my math (and this is quick math) its roughly 1.2 cent a hour to run.
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Usage is = Wattage 800 watts, Current draw (120V) 6.9 amps, This is like having 8 - 100 watt light bulbs on. Or running a small air conditioner - window unit. The actual cost varies to what it cost in your neighborhood for a KWH (kilo watt hour) typically it might be 8 cents -- so running the unit for three hours to make a batch - would cost 24 cents per batch