dont want to be shocked by electric bill. how much to run this half fan, half ac for 10 hours a night - avg. need it for nursey
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When running with the A/C on it consumes 900 watts of power. Using only the fan, and not the A/C, it still draws plenty of power, though somewhat less than the full 900 watts. To calculate the difference in your electric bill, you first have to determine how much your electric company charges per kilowatt hour, how many hours you plan to use it each month, and make the calculation from there.
1457231
I used a Killawatt unit to measure my new ADR30A2G. With the fan speed on low it uses 276 watts. It was also drawing 2.59 amps and after 4 hours it used 1.07 kwh. Where I live that cost me around 8 cents, or 2 cents an hour, or a half a buck per day.
641672
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.
806005
Good question... we don't have lots of data points yet since the unit has only be running two months at this point... but, it appears our electric utility bill has increased by about 100%. In other words, running the humidifier doubles our electric bill... and increase of $80 per month for our home or about $2.70 per day to run the unit. We are running our humidity at a very high setting.. almost 50% and the unit is wired as 220VAC to help increase the output. Also, this is over a 2,800 sq ft area. We are very pleased with the unit and have heard the same from others in our area. This is our first season with the Aprilaire. We are curious how the canister will hold up over time. We hope this helps answer your question.
149509
I used my Kill-A-Watt to measure mine and after 2275 hours on it broke down to 26 cents a day/ $7.99 a month to keep my 14' by 12' office at 70 degrees. Very efficient. It pulls 11amps/1262watts when running at full blast. I've had mine for at least 4 years and it still works wonderfully.
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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).
1093220
the $80 answer is outrageous!!! I guess different places have different electric prices but if we left ours on for about 12-15 hours a day, every day, our bill went up by 25-30$ a month, MAX. It also depends what type of space you are heating and how well insulated it is. We find it extremely helpful in an old house in the high rockies but a family member in Florida (who is trying to heat an uninsulated house) finds it nice but not as helpful as we do. We can't live without it and as people with a very low electric bill, we do not find this heater to add any stress to our bill. we've had it two years and i highly recommend it. especially for the price - comparable heaters are much more.
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An average 20" box fan you could buy at WalMart would draw less than .6 amps. I monitor my power usage and could not tell when I started using mine. Without getting out my amp gauge for 120vac devices, I can tell you it is minimal. Hope this helps...Rick
962976
This is only 68 watts so the max you can get out of it is 68 watt-hours. IRL you will probably only get half of that and you will also lose some in the DC to AC conversion, charge controller and storage battery. I would guess you will probably only get 30 watt-hours so if the sun is shining on it brightly for 10 hours, you will get about 300 watt-hours a day. If it is cloudy out you will only get about 1 tenth of that. I would also guess that the electric company pays about 10 cents a KWH so with this along with a good charge controller, battery, DC to AC inverter and the special interface to the electric company you can expect to earn about 3 cents a day. Enjoy!
1174556
in my region the unit costs $1.00 an hour to run on the 5000 watt mode. so its actually quite expensive to run if it were to run for several hours each day, we just run it on weekends when were in the gararge and that's about it but works very well!
1148146
it all depends on the state that you live. But this is a good AC. You can get an idea by calculating the wattage used by this AC.
109413
This pack is 350 watt-hours. So a 50 watt fan (a normal house fan) would last 7 hours
2214403
I know this fan moves some air. On a 12.6V battery I get a drop to 11.7 while running but not sure how many amp hours are used up. I put this in my camper bathroom and it works like a champ.
366927
I have used this heater to heat a small living room and kitchen but it uses a ton of electricity as any electric heater will. The kitchen and living room is probably half of the total 1024 sq ft of the house. I used it for a few months in southern Maryland during the winter, my electric bill was usually $40 more just because of that heater. I haven't used it since last year but do recall when it cycled on, the lights would dim/flicker. It has 2 modes 900 watt and 1500 watt and I only used it on the 900 watt mode. I would guess it may ok for a bedroom only, as long as it was closed off.
974460
Good question...I hooked up my Watts UP and the unit when cooling uses right at a kilowatt (mnfg says 1.16 KW.) So in North Dakota that's probably under 10 cents an hour, but if you are top tier PG&E Customer in the Peoples Republic of California its more like 40+ cents an hour. The way I use it is to temporarily cool a home office for no more a few hours a day (afternoon) in summer, so I'd guess it is about $50.-75./yr for electricity for that (rates are between the extreme rates above(California Central Valley where we have nice cool evenings and dry hot days)). I don't usually use it for heating. It has a pretty powerful fan that is easy to direct where you want it so if it is too warm and you don't mind the fan air that makes it feel like its cooling quite a bit more than it is so you don't run the cooling as much...when the thermostat turns cooling off the fan uses 0.075 KW...less than a tenth of the cooling usage. I'd expect this is similar to what a Window air conditioner would cost to run with similar cooling effect but less flexibility in where to send the air. So in my application the electrical cost isn't a big deal compared to the purchase price + CA Sales Tax.
457273
Not a car battery you will never get enough exchange of charge. Maybe a smaller deep cell battery. In theory if the fan runs all day, do you need it at night? Add radiant barrier to the attic floor and you won't
2126987
Don't buy this expecting it to be energy efficient. It will run your electric bill up. I am total electric and I use it on "flames only" most of the time for ambiance as it will easily increase your elec bill $20 to $30 a month if you use it often.