[MediocreButArrogant]

For those who care about such things: Here is my energy consumption for the last 12 hours, taken at about 10:30PM. I'm right on track to use 50kWh for the entire day, for a cost of about $6.66, once you add in the 5% tax and one days portion of the $8 service fee. So I'm on track for a power bill of around $200 if the weather stays the way it's been for the past few days. Not bad for a 2300 sq ft house built in 1988 which has had little in the way of energy saving retrofits. The shorter 2.2kW spikes are the upstairs 2.5 ton A/C, the 3.5kW spikes are the downstairs 3.5 ton A/C. So you can see the upstairs unit runs about half the time, and the downstairs unit 1/4th of the time during the hottest part of the day. That makes me think the house would be tolerable while waiting for the repair guy if one of the compressors ever went out. I've also been running my pool pump at low speed for 24 hours a day, and expect to do so for the entire summer.

[macgeek]

I'm running about 30KW a day on my electrical usage, running a pool pump 4 hrs a day, and the A/C at 90° (on peak days, on a off day, I run about 0.2k)

Jonathan

[Danknee]

Originally Posted by macgeek

I'm running about 30KW a day on my electrical usage, running a pool pump 4 hrs a day, and the A/C at 90° (on peak days, on a off day, I run about 0.2k)

Jonathan

I'm averaging 20.3kW per day. No pool, 4k sq ft house with a large main ac unit plus two additional smaller units (one for upstairs, one for the master. I keep the AC pegged at 78, but turn it off in currently unoccupied areas. Basically the upstairs is off nearly always and only one of the other two units will be on, depending on where we are at the time. 5 year old home with good insulation and double pane low-E glass everywhere.

[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by Danknee

I'm averaging 20.3kW per day. No pool, 4k sq ft house with a large main ac unit plus two additional smaller units (one for upstairs, one for the master.

Are you sure your home is in Las Vegas?

Just kidding. I averaged 20kW/day (about $80) for the billing period ending about a week ago, but my TED history says June 12th was the last day I used less than $3 of electricity in one day.

[Danknee]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

Are you sure your home is in Las Vegas?

Just kidding. I averaged 20kW/day (about $80) for the billing period ending about a week ago, but my TED history says June 12th was the last day I used less than $3 of electricity in one day.

Well that was my 30 day average that ended right before this weekend started.

This weekend a bunch of people stayed with us, all AC units running, multiple televisions, computers, etc. Our NEW average (3 days old) is just over 60kW per day.... $220-ish if we kept this up all month long.

Not too bad considering everything that was running. With visitors leaving today, the rest of this month will bring that average way down.

[Croce]

Originally Posted by macgeek

I'm running about 30KW a day on my electrical usage, running a pool pump 4 hrs a day, and the A/C at 90° (on peak days, on a off day, I run about 0.2k)

Jonathan

Is four hours a day enough? My single speed pump was set for twelve hours a day and I cut it back to ten. I thought the hotter it gets the more it needs to run. Am I wasting money?

[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by Croce

Is four hours a day enough? My single speed pump was set for twelve hours a day and I cut it back to ten. I thought the hotter it gets the more it needs to run. Am I wasting money?

The general rule of thumb is you want a minimum of one turn of water per day. I'm probably at about three, which is overkill, but I like a clean pool. If you assume 60gpm for a single speed pump, that's just over four hours to turn a 15k gallon pool, but I never found that to be sufficient in the summer when I had a single speed pump. You're running your pump enough if your pool stays clean.

30gpm (low speed) times 1440 minutes is almost 45k gallons

My pump draws 300 watts on speed #2, so that's about $0.86 to run my pump all day.

[airics]

4hrs a day = an algae bloom.... its 4hrs in the winter, minimum 6 in the summer... i run 8-12 with a variable speed pump...but my pool energy bill is very low in comparison to a single speed

[unf0rgiven6262]

I fart in the bathtub and consume 0 watts.

[PinkString]

Originally Posted by unf0rgiven6262

I fart in the bathtub and consume 0 watts.

Do you do this with bubble bath? You could try that and see how many more bubbles you can create.