what's your electricity usage?

[Mike]

If it makes you feel better, I was speaking to a friend who is currently in St Croix. Electricity is apparently $28.5 per KWH there....

Feel better yet?

 

[electron]

But he chooses to live in a known and expensive area Many people who live in 'affordable' areas are getting hit with higher rates because of Katrina etc.

 

[Rupp]

I forgot about where you live Rupp, not sure if those heaters would do the job here in NY. Also, 12.5A is pretty high, especially in a living room environment where there are other appliances running. Looks like a good deal tho.

My plasma, and 3 lights are on. Is that a lot of A?

 

[Rupp]

If it makes you feel better, I was speaking to a friend who is currently in St Croix. Electricity is apparently $28.5 per KWH there....

Feel better yet?

WOW. At my peak usage in August my bill would be 28.5 * 3012 = $85,842.00

Can that be right?????

 

[electron]

Hard to say without knowing details, but are all these devices on the same circuit as the heater?

 

[Rupp]

Yes.

 

[elcano]

If it makes you feel better, I was speaking to a friend who is currently in St Croix. Electricity is apparently $28.5 per KWH there....

Feel better yet?

Mike, isn't it 28.5 cents per KWH instead (or $0.285)?

I know that there is a price of living in the Caribbean. I live there too, but at those prices (about 150 times what I pay here in Puerto Rico) it would be cheaper to install distribution lines from here to St. Croix. Its just a few miles.

 

[Mike C]

One of our users is using G4 with a one-wire device to monitor usage in real time and generating graphs for viewing with G4's web server.

see http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.p...ghlight=#136155

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[Rupp]

One of our users is using G4 with a one-wire device to monitor usage in real time and generating graphs for viewing with G4's web server.

see http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.p...ghlight=#136155

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Is it just me or are there no graphics in the link posted?

 

[electron]

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Looks good. Looks like he got the idea from a jon00, who we are familiar with. I still have to go check my meter to see if there is a blinking LED.

 

[realolman]

I use about 26kwh / day.

My utility co. prints a year long chart with all your usages for each month on your bill Average daily use and avg. daily temperatures for the month. I think that's rather nice of 'em.

I'm sorta disappointed in you guys. I'da thought you had current transformers on all your circuits. hooked to your PC .

 

[upstatemike]

I'm sorta disappointed in you guys. I'da thought you had current transformers on all your circuits. hooked to your PC .

After this thread, power monitoring will definitely be moving way up on my project priority list!

 

[Rupp]

I use about 26kwh / day.

My utility co. prints a year long chart with all your usages for each month on your bill Average daily use and avg. daily temperatures for the month. I think that's rather nice of 'em.

I'm sorta disappointed in you guys. I'da thought you had current transformers on all your circuits. hooked to your PC .

My utility bill is a post card with big numbers on it and that's all. You have to keep the cards and do the calculations if you want to know how much you use.

 

[electron]

My bill shows the entire year as well, pretty nice for sure.

 

[Guy Lavoie]

My bill shows the entire year as well, pretty nice for sure.

We have that too. It shows you the 6 previous bills (here the bills are bi-monthly) in terms of consumption and dollar amount. Very convenient because you can compare last year's consumption for the same time period as the one currently being billed.