Electric costs

[harrychilds]

I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?

 

[Kgrim]

I would say that more than likely your heater is taking up probably 2-3x what your light is using.
The benefit to using HPS lamps is the radiant heat that is thrown off, LED's don't have nearly the radiant heat coming off them.

 

[Hollatchaboy]

I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?

It's probably the heater using all your electricity. Find another source of heat.

 

[Popop]

$100 mor3 a week or $100 more a month?

 

[piney420]

(actual light watts) x (hours you run your lights) = (watt hours), divide that by 1000 to get your kilowatt hours than multiply that by your electrical rate to give you cost per day for your light(s)

So 465 watts at 12 hours a day is 5580 watt hours, divide that by 1000 to get 5.58 kilowatt hours, multiply that by your electrical rate (0.20 example here) to get your cost per day of $1.12 (for lights only). Can use same formula with heater to find cost.

 

[New weed grower]

Electric heaters are extremely hard on Electricity

 

[Lordhooha]

I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?

You have expensive electric or a really cold house. That’s a lot of electricity tbh.

 

[Herb & Suds]

Grow seasonally
Just because you want to grow year round doesn’t mean it is advisable
I’m skipping summer this year by doubling my yields this winter
A/C is even more costly

 

[Lordhooha]

Grow seasonally
Just because you want to grow year round doesn’t mean it is advisable
I’m skipping summer this year by doubling my yields this winter
A/C is even more costly

A/c cost less to run. For instance my geothermal in the winter the compressor would run 238 watts to heat the house to 74 degrees and 37 watts to cool the house to 70. Cooling is easier and less cost on the building or growing.

 

[Herb & Suds]

A/c cost less to run. For instance my geothermal in the winter the compressor would run 238 watts to heat the house to 74 degrees and 37 watts to cool the house to 70. Cooling is easier and less cost on the building or growing.

Well I think those numbers get thrown out the window once you introduce a half dozen hid’s
But in my case my heat is lower because natural gas cost are lower

 

[Hollatchaboy]

Well I think those numbers get thrown out the window once you introduce a half dozen hid’s
But in my case my heat is lower because natural gas cost are lower

Price of lng is going up though.

 

[Herb & Suds]

Price of lng is going up though.

So is electric

 

[bam0813]

I'm using a 465w LED and a electric heater and its costing me $100 dollars per week to run it, surely this can't be right? HPS isn't half as expensive. I'm going to run out of electric and my crop is going to fail. I can't afford 100 dollars a week on electric. What am I supposed to do? I thought they were supposed to save electric, not use more. It's using about 20 dollars a day, is it because of the electric heater?

It’s gotta be the heater imo. I used a 430 watt i think that ran like 22 -25 usd a month for the light

 

[bam0813]

400+a month and im buying weed

 

[Lordhooha]

Well I think those numbers get thrown out the window once you introduce a half dozen hid’s
But in my case my heat is lower because natural gas cost are lower

That was my rooms in Michigan running all my equipment there.

 

[thumper60]

400+a month and im buying weed

Well over that here iam paying .22 per KWH

 

[Lordhooha]

Its why I'm getting solar back on my house. Unfortunately it's not feasible for any of my grows. I looked and to run one of my buildings with solar was going to make the solar installer a good chunk of money lol.

Price of lng is going up though.

 

[bam0813]

Dam thats pricey. As a personal use grower thats outa my league. My vehicles don’t cost me that monthly

 

[Kerowacked]

My temp is never over 20°, a little slower growing is all.

 

[harrychilds]

It's probably the heater using all your electricity. Find another source of heat.

Would a smaller heater help? I only have it on low, it's a 2,000 watt oil filled radiator, just on the 1,000 watt setting, but it's on low. Do you know if it would still pull 1,000 watts from the mains even on low power?