During a recent conversation with my other half, we discussed how much it cost to run my MES 30 . So I set out to do the math
Here it is.
Some of the things you need to know before you start are .What size is your heating element? In my case it is 800 watts.
Next we need to turn that into amps. Real easy. watts divided by the house hold voltage . Most homes have a 120 volt service to their receptical. That is what your element likes. 800/120=6.6 amps now you have the amps your half way done.
Now multiply the amps 6.6 X the voltage 120 = 792 divided by 1000 and you get the KW or kilowatts it's 0.792
Now that you have the KW you can find the KWH (kilowatt hours) That is important because that is how your electric bill is figured
KWH=KW times the number of hours of your smoke
So it's 0.792 X the hours so in this case it is 18 hours or 14.256 KWH. The power companies charge you about half of your bill for the electricity KWH used but by the time you are charged for the federal,state and power companies charges it is about double. So what I did was to get my total number of KWH's charged and divided it by my total bill and that gave me the cost per KWH charged. It was about .1182 per KWH charged so my smoke cost was
14.256 KWH multiplied by the cost of each KWH charged by the power company.1182 times the KWH”14.256 or 1.71 per 18 hour smoke. At one time a long time ago this was second nature to me but it has been a long time since I went to apprentice school I am now 65. If someone else checks my math and formulas and I made a error please let me know. Jted
Here it is.
Some of the things you need to know before you start are .What size is your heating element? In my case it is 800 watts.
Next we need to turn that into amps. Real easy. watts divided by the house hold voltage . Most homes have a 120 volt service to their receptical. That is what your element likes. 800/120=6.6 amps now you have the amps your half way done.
Now multiply the amps 6.6 X the voltage 120 = 792 divided by 1000 and you get the KW or kilowatts it's 0.792
Now that you have the KW you can find the KWH (kilowatt hours) That is important because that is how your electric bill is figured
KWH=KW times the number of hours of your smoke
So it's 0.792 X the hours so in this case it is 18 hours or 14.256 KWH. The power companies charge you about half of your bill for the electricity KWH used but by the time you are charged for the federal,state and power companies charges it is about double. So what I did was to get my total number of KWH's charged and divided it by my total bill and that gave me the cost per KWH charged. It was about .1182 per KWH charged so my smoke cost was
14.256 KWH multiplied by the cost of each KWH charged by the power company.1182 times the KWH”14.256 or 1.71 per 18 hour smoke. At one time a long time ago this was second nature to me but it has been a long time since I went to apprentice school I am now 65. If someone else checks my math and formulas and I made a error please let me know. Jted