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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.
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$1400 Electric Bill for 1 Bdrm Apt (HELP)
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acridlab
never realized how good i got it,, were at 15 cents /kWh
he's got a legal medical grow (max 6 mature plants) and is running 2 600W lights, so he's not gonna be pulling down anything like your ten pounds. pretty sure he did the math and saw he was growing at a loss. if his bills stayed at that $700 for the four to five months of a grow, he'd have to grow at least 2 pounds just to pay that bill, not to mention any other costs. be like working at a job where all your income went to pay your taxes. at that stage, why bother? you might as well just go out and buy it from a dispensary at those electricity prices.
I think it's most likely a mistake. I was running 2 rooms, 4k HPS for 24/7 veg and 3k HPS at 12/12 with AC/fans/dehumidifier in both rooms. Add on the 3 bedroom house attached and the bill was still never over $550 a month. This is in socal btw.
has to be a mistake if he was up north and had pge its possible 
but with Edison and hes never home I don't see how unless somebody has tapped into his power.
but with Edison and hes never home I don't see how unless somebody has tapped into his power.
Gloomshade
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My electricity starts at $0.28 per kilowatt hours and goes up and up from there... My bills were like $1000 per quarter before i started growing...now they're like $2000 a quarter.
you really need to go around and take note of the power consumption of all of your appliances and other electrical items. electric dryers and stoves use a lot of power along with your central hvac unit.
your lights by themselves 2-600w are only consuming 1.2kwh every hour they are both on
so if youre running at 12/12 then your total hours of lights on per month is 360(12hrs*30days) 360*1.2=432kwh
432 * $0.20 = $86.40(what you should be paying for 1,200w @ 12/12 for a 30 day period @ a rate of $0.20/kwh)
your lights by themselves 2-600w are only consuming 1.2kwh every hour they are both on
so if youre running at 12/12 then your total hours of lights on per month is 360(12hrs*30days) 360*1.2=432kwh
432 * $0.20 = $86.40(what you should be paying for 1,200w @ 12/12 for a 30 day period @ a rate of $0.20/kwh)
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.
only in cali ...my electric bill has been higher than friends rent/mortgage back east....yeehaw..its only gonna get worse
"Avg of 108/kwh per day"
2*600W+400W= 1,600kW*12h/day= 19,2kWh/ day
leaves 90 kWh/day, divide by 24= 3750 watts of other appliances running 24/7, you might want to check that airconditioning system...
ChasingGreen
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I'd also look at what time you're running the lights and AC. Power is more expensive during "peak times". So the only thing I could suggest is to find out when the power is cheaper and run your lights during that time period to save some money. Def seems like a mistake for your bill, however, you could also consider getting a NEST thermostat. That way, you know exactly how many hours your AC ran, and if the weather outside caused the AC to run more than normal. This way you'd know nothing was out of the ordinary. Now that it's summer time, your AC will run a LOT more than the other months. I went from my AC running 22 hours in January to 140 hours in March to 229 hours in April and now 236 hours in May and it will stay like that for about the rest of summer.
RoyalFlush
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larry badiner
sell clones to clubs? or on craigslist
