[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.

[roach]

I wish my electricity was that cheap, here we pay around 40 cent pr KW....

still one hell of a bill you got there, hope you find a solution

[acridlab]

never realized how good i got it,, were at 15 cents /kWh

[slippyone]

Yeah, I am also in So Cal and we pay .37 per Kw.

We run a 13,000 BTU AC, 50 pint Dehumidifier and 3 1000w HPS.....

It was about $320 until we added the better AC unit and another light and now the bill is $700!

Does that sound right based on the Kw per hour?

[Vegan]

dang did I read through that correctly? 108kw per day, In a apt?
I could see runnin that in a 3bd house but a apartment..zoiks

[onavelzy]

Originally Posted by AlterEgo860

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.

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.

[soil margin]

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.

[IGROWMYOWN]

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.

[devilgoob]

Hopefully it is a read error, and it's not a resistive heating loss (your wiring heating up, as a load)

[Gloomshade]

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.