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heh.. but i pay $50-60/mo in the winter.Originally posted by fallenmuffinThat's what you get for living in CA.. move.254342256Comment
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Then what's the problem. It's inflation. Pay a shit load in the summer and almost nothing in the winter. It all balances itself out.Originally posted by studiocriticheh.. but i pay $50-60/mo in the winter.Comment
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i do not think that word means what you think it means.Originally posted by fallenmuffininflation254342256Comment
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Lol, it means what i think it means. However I didn't use it correctly it just seemed to fitOriginally posted by studiocritici do not think that word means what you think it means.
Yeah, lol.Originally posted by studiocriticbalances out, i guess..Comment
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i feel like a sigwhoreOriginally posted by edgeprodKris Kros will make ya jump, jump254342256Comment
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i don't know what math you are doing, but having a few $50 months does not balance out a bunch of $1000 monthsOriginally posted by fallenmuffinThen what's the problem. It's inflation. Pay a shit load in the summer and almost nothing in the winter. It all balances itself out.
electric is overpriced everywhere, and I have to imagine that we have companies like Enron to thank for that somewhere along the line
Hell, our electric is cheap, we have a 2200sq ft house and we are paying over $300 a month....and we have some of the cheaper electric in the countryComment
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Thats BS, I have Southern California Edison and my 4 bedroom home bill is allways under $100. I would like to see more info on that. Did the meter reader just get a bad read?Last edited by DBS.US; 09-07-2006, 11:26 PM.Comment
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I live a 2,860sq ft home in SW Florida.. I pay 226/mo for electric.. every month..Originally posted by Jacei don't know what math you are doing, but having a few $50 months does not balance out a bunch of $1000 months
electric is overpriced everywhere, and I have to imagine that we have companies like Enron to thank for that somewhere along the line
Hell, our electric is cheap, we have a 2200sq ft house and we are paying over $300 a month....and we have some of the cheaper electric in the countryComment
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Clearly, he's fabricating his bill, then!Originally posted by DBS.USThat BS, I have Southern California Edison and my 4 bedroom home bill is allways under $100
Or maybe he doesn't eat Mac and Cheese made with the power of the SUN every night for dinner.Comment
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I have just about everything ?streamlined? you can imagine when it comes to energy concerns, all bulbs are FLCs (15-23 watts I think, or around 60-90 watt Incandescent equivalents), all fairly energy efficient appliances, everything cut off when I?m not using it, etc. It wasn?t really high bills that pissed me off? it was the fact that you are not really told up front about how much these devices are going to cost you in the long run. The FLC bulbs paid for themselves in a month (literally, after one month of using them they were saving me money), and on average save around $100-120 annually (yeah, chickenscratch, but after I got done replacing most energy hogs it ended up being a few thousand annually).
I bought a neat little gadget called Kill-A-Watt to help me determine energy gulpers. Some of them I owned were simply retarded on how inefficient they were. Fridge was taking around 1,200w, I bought one almost in half. One of the most surprising things to me was the fucking coffee maker, it used almost 1000 fucking watts (granted it?s not on much so it?s not hurting that bad). Then the stupid toaster, it took more watts than the coffee maker! Anyways, after I replaced a little of this and a little of that (having to pay around $2000 total in newer more efficient appliances), the annual savings are roughly $2500-$3000 bucks. So after the first year, everything I had to buy paid for itself lol.
I love Kill-A-Watt. I also hate it because the first thing I do now when I buy anything is hook it up through Kill-A-Watt to see how much it?s costing me, other than the initial cost. I still have to replace a few things around the house, namely old CRT monitors. Unfortunately it?s almost time to upgrade my computer which is going to suck on power (the new fucking graphics cards coming out soon eat something like 300 watts by themselves, more than my entire computer consumes atm). Eh, oh fucking well.
Oh yeah: KILL-A-WATT RULES.


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If the Current Charges are $1233. and the Total charges are $1570 then last month bill was for $337 and not paid. So I don't get it.
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well, i never said we didn't hog electricity...hahaOriginally posted by fallenmuffinI live a 2,860sq ft home in SW Florida.. I pay 226/mo for electric.. every month..
I guess we could get it down cheaper if I didn't leave computers, tv and lights on 24/7, but we keep such wierd hours and shit
we tried those energy saving bulbs in our lights, but they made my wifes complexion look wierd and she didn't like them, so we are back to the basic natural light bulbs..hahaComment
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That?s the only thing I dislike about FL?s, even if you buy them all at the same time and same brand, they all seem to have a slightly different color to them. I eventually got them all looking right (I ordered around two hundred of them in a lot deal, mainly for family and friends so they could use them). Took me going through around thirty of them to get all the bulbs the right color for me.Originally posted by Jacewe tried those energy saving bulbs in our lights, but they made my wifes complexion look wierd and she didn't like them, so we are back to the basic natural light bulbs..haha
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i only buy those "daylight" colored ones.. they have a regular daylight white color to emOriginally posted by notabookThat?s the only thing I dislike about FL?s, even if you buy them all at the same time and same brand, they all seem to have a slightly different color to them. I eventually got them all looking right (I ordered around two hundred of them in a lot deal, mainly for family and friends so they could use them). Took me going through around thirty of them to get all the bulbs the right color for me.254342256Comment
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bingoOriginally posted by Jaceit could be that he paid all but $337 of the last bill
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Those are peak usage.. it doesn't actually use 300w all the time..Originally posted by notabookUnfortunately it?s almost time to upgrade my computer which is going to suck on power (the new fucking graphics cards coming out soon eat something like 300 watts by themselves, more than my entire computer consumes atm). Eh, oh fucking well.
I have a 400w PS in my computer, with one a 7900GT card, the kind that needs its own power etc..
its really not that bad. all my power usage is from my a/c..254342256Comment
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even when you buy those though, they are never consistantly the same colorOriginally posted by studiocritici only buy those "daylight" colored ones.. they have a regular daylight white color to em
if we could find a brand that was totally consistant color in all the bulbs, we would give it a go againComment
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yeah, computers use WAY less electricity that what people think, and unless you are constantly gaming or rendering, they don't use the peak wattage of the power supplyOriginally posted by studiocriticThose are peak usage.. it doesn't actually use 300w all the time..
I have a 400w PS in my computer, with one a 7900GT card, the kind that needs its own power etc..
its really not that bad. all my power usage is from my a/c..
something fun everyone should do, get one of those little devices you plug into the wall and then run your electronics through it....so you can see how much power each device usesComment
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lmao, that's basically what my whole post was about. I got Kill-A-Watt ages ago and it changed the way I look at anything I buy, price goes *way* beyond the initial buying price.Originally posted by Jacesomething fun everyone should do, get one of those little devices you plug into the wall and then run your electronics through it....so you can see how much power each device uses
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