Power Costs

[happy daze john in oz]

Not on a Smart Meter John as said i opted out of them installing one!
Cheers

How did you manage that one?
They are now being made compulsory.

[Doc Vernon]

At time you had the choice John and had to tell them,so it went on your Account Details.
There were a lot of discussions on them and I did not like what I read.
Cheers

Somewhere I have the Letter of Confirmationmust look for it

[vic mcclymont]

Doc. Cost per kWh.

Watts X 60 divided by 1000 equals kilo watt hour X cost will give running cost per hour.
Vic
Ie 2.030 X 27.03 equals 54.87 cents per hours assuming unit runs continually.

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks Vic
Dont know how that works but if its correct that is just what i am after.
I really appreciate this Vic
Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

Vic I must be thick LOL
I cannot get how this all works as you post this what I get ???

Watts X 60 divided by 1000 equals kilo watt hour X cost will give running cost per hour.
Vic
Ie 2.030 X 27.03 equals 54.87 cents per hours assuming unit runs continually.

2.030 X 60 = 121.80 Divided by 1000 = 0.0218 X 27.030 = 3.292 ????

OR 2030 X 60 = 121800 Divided by 1000 = 121.80 x 27.030 = 3292.54 ???

Your last line seems correct though how do I get this?
Sorry but I am stuck LOL
I suppose I may be reading something incorrectly ??
Cheers

[vic mcclymont]

Doc, Doc ignore first part, wrong!!!!
Right, 2030 watts is 2.030 kwh(2030 divided by 1000 = 2.03)
2.03kw running for. 1 hour is 2.03 kwhr.
Cost per hour 2.03x 27.03 equals 54 cents approx.
So for say five hours calc would be 2.03 X 5 X 27.030.
Hope this helps?
Vic
PS assumes unit is running continuously.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Vernon.
When we bought this place they had two installed heaters that used a huge amount of power; probably in the old days costs where not as high, when we put in the air con they used one of the power switches and disabled the other, at the same time we had cutout switches put in don't know about a smart meter, only know that our power bills dropped a lot, we are only a few hundred meters from the Snowy Hydro main building so they may be frightened I'll blow them up if we don't get cheap power ha ha. When we had a big bill Betty rang Origin and complained, the bloke said what is the little number on the very base of your bill, she had to get her glasses to read it but it was a 6 he did some calculations and said that the next bill would be adjusted, it went from around $400 to $46.
Des

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks again Vic!
I thought i was ging troppo! LOL
Yes that looks like the thing to go by,so i know more or less what the cost should be !
Appreciated
Cheers

Yes Des
The old things are a bit more costly to run ,and as you we moved here with Two Air Cons Installed with the Gas Central Heating,so in Winter and now seems Summer Months we are up in costs! But no price will dter me from being Comfortable that for sure!
At least we get a decent enough discount from our Provider!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Speaking with my spakry brother he gave the same formula as you now have.

He also tells me that it is not good practice to run an air conditioner at any temp other than 10 degrees less that the outside temp.
So if 35 outside no lower than 25 inside.

He tells me that setting it lower can damage the compressor.
But why not do what I did, have additional solar panels fitted, went from a 1.5 system to a 3.7 one.
Last account, credit of $168.

[robpage]

I have air conditioning in the lounge and in the bedroom the whole point of air conditioning is not to act as a chiller or in the case of mine which are heat pumps do I act as a heater it is to condition the air so the great point is in summer to reduce the humidity I run mine in summer about 5 degrees below the outside temperature and in winter I use it to top up the room temperature probably by about 5 degrees . I have seen it you'd on ships where we have been in equatorial regions and the accommodation has been something with that's like 15 degrees centigrade I think everybody ended up with a cold where you was coming in from the outside at 30 + degrees and freezing to death in your cabin