Avrage Cost In Electricity Per Year?

[DJ ArKaDaRkA]

what would the cost be per year running your filter 24hrs a day

filter 24hrs per day
15w light 12hrs per day
air pump 6hrs per day

its probally not alot just i would be intrested to see the overall cost

 

[Truck]

what is the wattage of the filter pump?

and the air pump?

 

[DJ ArKaDaRkA]

not sure

its a juwel internal ?

forget the airpump too

 

[adamgreen240]

not very much atall, you wanna try running a 6 X 2 X 2 marine reef with 3 X 400W halides, thats when the cost starts to add up when it costs £5 to put the lights on every day...

 

[Truck]

jeez!!! thats expensive

 

[IovaykInD]

jeez!!! thats expensive

if you know the cost per kilowatt hour, then go to google and type in kilowatt hour calculator.. though the prices are in U.S. dollars, converting shouldn't be too hard

 

[TigerIssey]

There is a calculator to work this out on the PFK website.

 

[aaronnorth]

Your electricity supplier will quote a price per unit of electricity which take the form of price per kilowatt hour. This means the cost of running a 1 kilowatt appliance for one hour e.g. a 2kilowatt fire would consume two units of electricity in one hour (2 x 1kw/hr) - if your supplier charges 10p per kw/hr then you would consume 20p worth of electricity.

A 1w appliance would take 1000 hours to consume 1kw/hr so the cost would be (using 10p unit as above) 10/1000 i.e. 0.01 of a penny each hour (or £0.0001 in pounds).

so taking the 15w tube as an example...

1000/ 15 = 66hours to consume 1kw (10p as an average unti price - check with supplier as it may be higher/ lower)

66/ 12hr (how long you leave light on for) = 5.5p per day.

Thanks, Aaron.