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Dec 14 2011 02:50pm
I have a question about how much power a home would use under the following conditions.

-no air conditioning of any sort aside from ceiling fans

- the only lights installed were leds

-the refrigerator,stove,microwave, waterheater, and tv's were all low energy models



in the house

1x stove
1x microwave
1x standard fridge
1x deepfreezer
4x tv's
3x ceiling fans

2-4 computers


Can anyone give me a general idea of how much it would use? I would guess around 800-1600 watts per month because the average home uses like 1.4 kwh's or something like that.
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Dec 14 2011 03:48pm
you can google the powers for these appliances and just add them up? Then estimate the amount of time these appliances are on, say daily, then weekly and monthly etc.
you can calculate kWh from that

also, you can't use watts per month
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Dec 14 2011 07:33pm
You'll have to be more specific about the Computers and TVs as well.
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Dec 14 2011 08:10pm
Quote (skyeye @ Dec 14 2011 12:50pm)
I have a question about how much power a home would use under the following conditions.

-no air conditioning of any sort aside from ceiling fans

- the only lights installed were leds

-the refrigerator,stove,microwave, waterheater, and tv's were all low energy models



in the house

1x stove
1x microwave
1x standard fridge
1x deepfreezer
4x tv's
3x ceiling fans

2-4 computers


Can anyone give me a general idea of how much it would use? I would guess around 800-1600 watts per month because the average home uses like 1.4 kwh's or something like that.


stove and water heater should be gas powered, look up the wattage of fridge, tv and light bulbs. multiply watts * hours used divide by 1000 and thats your kW/h consumption
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Dec 14 2011 08:30pm
Quote (Kamikizzle @ Dec 14 2011 09:10pm)
stove and water heater should be gas powered, look up the wattage of fridge, tv and light bulbs. multiply watts * hours used divide by 1000 and thats your kW/h consumption


ahh well im wanting to know how much it would cost for electric stoves and water heaters, not gas. I am not a huge fan of natural gas, but thanks for explaining how to get kw/h.
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Dec 15 2011 03:40pm
First off you need to know what your area charges per kw/h.

Then you can try to estimate your total usage by how long those items will be on for the month.

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Dec 16 2011 09:51am
here is how u do it.

estimate how much each item are "on" in hours and multiply with watt usage.

your answer will be in kW/h and multiply again with electricity price (which is in kW/h).

There is no way anyone can answer your question since none knows anything about which the items you got and how much you use them.
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