The Price of cool
Jul. 16th, 2017 02:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrJust got around top doing some calculations about the power my new air conditioner uses.
It's 1280 watt. That's 1.28 kW. So running it for an hour uses 1.28 kW/hr. And it looks like I'm paying more than $0.10 per kW/hr. Which means that it'd gonna cost me more than $3/day. Ouch.
Immediately turned it off and opened the window and turned on the fan in the bedroom window.
I'll save it for the really hoi days...
It's 1280 watt. That's 1.28 kW. So running it for an hour uses 1.28 kW/hr. And it looks like I'm paying more than $0.10 per kW/hr. Which means that it'd gonna cost me more than $3/day. Ouch.
Immediately turned it off and opened the window and turned on the fan in the bedroom window.
I'll save it for the really hoi days...
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Date: 2017-07-16 03:32 pm (UTC)Unless the compressor is running the whole time (possible, if it's cooling a large volume on a hot day) you're using less than that. Though even with the compressor off the AC's fan consumes some juice.