How much for your electricity bill?

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I don't know where to post this but if I posted in a wrong forum please move it to an appropriate one.

How much does electricity cost if you run your computer 10-12hr a day with 600WATTS total for everything..?

Any idea?
 
I keep my computer on 24/7 and my bill isn't over $50, that is with a/c on, lights etc.My computer is in my sig.
 
I've got 4 machines that run 24/7 and 1 that runs about 6 hours/day.
4 bedroom house, Gas heat and stoves, elec dryer and washer.
Our monthly bill without the A/C is $120/month. With the A/C last month it was $230, but it was very hot here that month.
 
vat said:
How much does electricity cost if you run your computer 10-12hr a day with 600WATTS total for everything..?

Any idea?
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That all depends on the time of day you run, since if I remember correctly, the price per Kw has a peak and off-peak price. 6 and 8 cents/kilowatt is what I believe we pay.

But you have to know the exact load your PC puts out to get an effective number, can't just use the PSU's wattage rating as that is for the 12 and 5 volts rails and that is max load.

Get a watt meter and hook it up to your powerstrip and see what the average watts your system uses, find out what price you pay per kilowatt hour and multiply all that together to get a very close estimate.

I've got one of these meters,
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vat said:
I don't know where to post this but if I posted in a wrong forum please move it to an appropriate one.

How much does electricity cost if you run your computer 10-12hr a day with 600WATTS total for everything..?

Any idea?
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First, your computer won't draw 600 watts constantly. You need to find the average power it consumes with a watt meter, then you gotta find out what the local rate is per kw/h. But with a 300 watt average, for 12 hours per day, 30 days per month, and energy cost at $0.10 per kw/h it would cost around $11. Drawing 600 watts constantly for the same time would be $22 of course
 
well here in CA we have this low cost program...

so around 40 bucks a month tops if i leave everything on 24/7 (rarely)
 
If we are talking about house bill, I pay close to $400 per month and I live in Texas.
 
3 rigs 24/7, couple window AC units, pool filter/pump... $130ish in the summer, 80 in the winter (gas heat).
 
We got a program with my power company if you have lived in the same place for at least a year... They average your bills for the last 12 months and that amount is what I pay for electricity. So, I pay 38.68 a month... all year long.
 
...in most cases, the additional AC costs for a PC running 24/7 are almost trivial, when included in the mix of everything else in the household. Been through this exercise before and while I can't seem to find the spreadsheet I did with the power / $ calcs, I do remember thinking "so what" when I finished up.

Now, ten dual Xeon boxes with RAID5 arrays in each of them......different story....:D

Regards - B.B.S.
 
BlindedByScience said:
...in most cases, the additional AC costs for a PC running 24/7 are almost trivial, when included in the mix of everything else in the household. Been through this exercise before and while I can't seem to find the spreadsheet I did with the power / $ calcs, I do remember thinking "so what" when I finished up.

Now, ten dual Xeon boxes with RAID5 arrays in each of them......different story....:D

Regards - B.B.S.
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ya its not your computer thats going to pull all the power... its the AC, fridge, stove, those 100w light bulbs.. 36" tv... your monitor... etc...
 
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