More power = More $$$ ???

Giuseppe

I have a question about cost. What have you guys experienced with respect to electricity bills compared to before and after you got a HT system? The setup in my signature below is what I am most likely going with. Will I see a significant increase in my bills if say, for example, I watched one two hour movie a day???

thehaens@cox.net

I don't think you are going to see a big difference, you may not see a difference at all, certainly nothing to worry about....

Now a 220V Hot Tub, that is something that puts a hole in the wallet.....

Scott

Giuseppe

lol, thanks

Shizelbs

I don't notice any difference.

Giuseppe

I would have thought that with all of these powerful amps supplying high amounts of watts would amount to more expense. That is wierd that you guys havn't seen much of a change??? Sounds good to me though

kingsqueak

If you go with separates, running pro-audio amps x 7 and you run them at high levels, it can easily be a couple hundred watts of electric use for each amp. That doesn't translate all that much on the bill, but it's definitely there. Compared to the cost of the amps and components though, it's negligible.

thehaens@cox.net

kingsqueak wrote:

Compared to the cost of the amps and components though, it's negligible.

Perfect statement...

Like a Ferrari or Lambo owner posting on a forum asking how much his gas is going to cost....

Scott

heiney9

Guiseppe in the US we are billed by the Kilowatt-hour (kWh).

Kilowatt is a unit of measure of the rate at which electrical energy is used. Ten 100 watt light bulbs turned on at the same time will use electrical energy at a rate of 1000 watts or 1 kW (Kilowatt).

Kilowatt-hour is a unit of measure of electricity used. One kilowatt hour lights a 100 watt bulb for 10 hours or operates a 1000 watt appliance-such as a hair dryer, iron or toaster for one hour.

In my area the rate per kWh (Kilowatt hour) is anywhere between $0.03734-$0.08275.

So essentially I can burn one hundred watt bulb for 10 hours and it would cost me between a nickle and a dime. If you can roughly figure the useage of the components and know the going rate you can see it amounts to very little.

H9

crossroadazn

Even you own Krell, Mark Levinson and giant tube amps do you worry about chump change electric bill ?

Holydoc

thehaens@cox.ne wrote:

I don't think you are going to see a big difference, you may not see a difference at all, certainly nothing to worry about....

Now a 220V Hot Tub, that is something that puts a hole in the wallet.....

Scott

Scott,

My (4 woman, 1 man ) Hot Tub runs 24/7, 7 days a week. Compared to that bad boy, I do not even think my HT system even shows up on my bill.

Don't sweat the little stuff!

thehaens@cox.net

Holydoc wrote:

Scott,

My (4 woman, 1 man ) Hot Tub runs 24/7, 7 days a week. Compared to that bad boy, I do not even think my HT system even shows up on my bill.

Don't sweat the little stuff!

Exactly - I like the 4 woman, 1 man part :rolleyes: My tub costs us about 150 or so a month, and to think that when I bought it, the salesman told me it would be about 30.00 or so....(I guess a sucker is born every minute )

Scott

Giuseppe

Thanks for the replys guys. Well to be specific, the only reason I wanted to check about the electric use was because I am setting up my system in my parents basement and don't want to add to their bills, lol. If it was going to be significant then I would pay for the extra.

thehaens@cox.net

Hell with that, blame it on them, to many hot showers, to many loads of laundry, that damn 2000 watt hair dryer, or the beer cooler in the garage...etc..

Holydoc

thehaens@cox.ne wrote:

Hell with that, blame it on them, to many hot showers, to many loads of laundry, that damn 2000 watt hair dryer, or the beer cooler in the garage...etc..

Beer Cooler in the garage??!! Umm...I will pick up the cost for that one.