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acridlab
holy sh!%! i hope they mis read, or i am never moving to cali! my bills under that with 4k on 12/12 and 1k 24/7.. and tvs fridges, etc.
so be smart. be safe.. pay your bills.. and find ways to cut back on electric if u need to.. shit.. what I was doing was.. add up everything for a full harvest.. electric.. water.. nutes.. soil.. everything . then multiply that by 2 or 3 depending on strains.. then u know the price it costs u to produce what your producing.. say 3000 a harvest.. is what ur putting in.. and ur getting 10 lbs each harvest.. well that 3000 can come from bud.. or hash.
Damn that's expensive for a few lights. My buddy is running 1/4 million watts at his grow and only pays $4,000 a month. 5,500 plants.
So I just got the worst bill of my life and I'm trying to figure out if it's legit or there's some sort of mistake here. I live in a 1 bdrm apt and run 2x 600w digital HPS in flowering and sometimes a 400w digital MH for veg. It is a medical grow and within the legal guidelines, but I still strongly prefer the building owner and electric company do not know what I'm doing. The bill was over $1400 total for August and September. It was the hottest 2 months of the year and I had the AC on a good amount, but still do not see how that justifies a $1400 bill. I work full time, am gone all day and do not consume much power at all outside if growing. I have a laptop computer, fridge and big screen TV that is on avg of 3 hours a day - that is it. I also run a 6'' vortex 24/7 and have a few other fans running most of the time. Also, for this billing period, I was only running one of the 600w HPS, not both.
I live in SoCal and they have this tiered billing system where the more power you use, the more expensive it gets. Here are how my numbers appear on the bill for two months:
Total of 6700/kwh
Avg of 108/kwh per day
I ended up using most of my power in the expensive tier where electricity runs 20 cents per kwh.
Does this sound right for my situation? I did the math and it doesn't add up at all.
If it's not legit, how do you recommend I contest the bill without setting off any alarms?
Thanks
Sound fair to me.
Electric is very expensive and only getting more expensive.
Especially where i live where 1 kwh cost 1.5 dollas with tax.