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Message 1050534 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 9:19:55 UTC


Mine is $251 a month but my home theatre is more power hungry.



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Message 1050549 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 11:38:16 UTC - in response to Message 1050534.  
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Mine is €433,85(+) per 2 month, with so called, night rating, since I
live in the center of a small town and have no gas*, not allowed, considered too
dangerous, but had to go to court, to claim my rights!
(The whole, 175 year old building, is gas heated (C.H.)4 heaters placed on top of the building, equivalent too 4 x 100KW)

I've just passed the 10MegaWatt/hour border in 5 years.

*Electric stove 3x 240/400V (triple fase)7500Watt/hour, AC unit 850Watt, BOILER 2500Watt, 3 QUAD's + 4 CUDA cards, 1250Watt when all in use.(+ 250Watt if all 3
Monitors are on, 400Watt with TV on.)
Whitout SETI WU's 150Watt less, Einstein hardly uses the GTX480 (2 -4% load)
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((+) 35% off, night rating.)

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atm., uses 500Watt.(Use outside air {+4C} to cool the CAL cards)
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Message 1050618 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 20:37:39 UTC

Current monthly power bill for 4 rigs, mainly GPU crunching is $200
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Message 1050624 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 20:48:53 UTC

I don't pay anything for power since electricity is included in my rent.

I only have one computer crunching and it is an older quad with no GPU so, even if I had to pay it would be less than $10 per month.

And I am not saving any electrons with SETI being down since I crunch other projects too.
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Message 1050630 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 21:06:44 UTC - in response to Message 1050624.  

I don't pay anything for power since electricity is included in my rent.

I only have one computer crunching and it is an older quad with no GPU so, even if I had to pay it would be less than $10 per month.

And I am not saving any electrons with SETI being down since I crunch other projects too.

Mine's also included in My space rent, But I do know the amount for this month, I used 361Kwh or $32.82 worth thanks to Seti being offline, Bit of a low point for the Year really.
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Message 1050635 - Posted: 23 Nov 2010, 21:23:50 UTC

now my at 62€ per Month = 744€ Year

2008/2009 was at 4200 KWh per year
2009/2010 was at 3200 KWh per year

this is for a single user home , only my cruncher eat the most
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Message 1050701 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 1:55:27 UTC

My power bill for October 8 to November 8 was $16.82 of which $15.11 is the basic monthly service charge.

In this area, NYSEG only reads the meters on alternate months and bills monthly on an estimate basis when they don't read. The month was estimated at only 8 kwh, which is an echo from a bad reading in September 2009 which caused subsequent readings and estimates to be tiny.

In a more practical vein, I probably used slightly more Propane for heating after S@H work became scarce. I haven't worked out the relative costs of electric versus propane heat, nor the firewood for my woodstove. I'd rather have the electric heating with a S@H byproduct, though.
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Message 1050708 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 2:49:01 UTC - in response to Message 1050701.  

My power bill for October 8 to November 8 was $16.82 of which $15.11 is the basic monthly service charge.

In this area, NYSEG only reads the meters on alternate months and bills monthly on an estimate basis when they don't read. The month was estimated at only 8 kwh, which is an echo from a bad reading in September 2009 which caused subsequent readings and estimates to be tiny.

In a more practical vein, I probably used slightly more Propane for heating after S@H work became scarce. I haven't worked out the relative costs of electric versus propane heat, nor the firewood for my woodstove. I'd rather have the electric heating with a S@H byproduct, though.
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Message 1050714 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 2:58:42 UTC
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SOP here in the park is to break out all the costs one has racked up for the month, I also know how much I used in Natural Gas($20.21 or 20 Therms[THRM]) and how much It costs Me, Plus the water pumping charge is a flat amount(No meters cause of Freezing problems last It was tried). Actually ISTA does a pretty good job.


Here's a picture of My bill.

I plan a bit ahead, But this time I could not have foreseen something like this, At least not exactly, But Hey saving money is good, Grace gets 96 cans of Friskies for Christmas as a result, Which will last Her sometime into July or August 2011.
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Message 1050751 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 6:18:11 UTC

Here is a nice summary the green line is the avg temp F:
I am around $0.12 kWh


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Message 1050899 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 23:13:29 UTC

I'm ashtonished to see how much some of you are willing to pay for crunching SETI. Heating the house at wintertime of course is ok. But how about heating the house, and at the same time cooling it with the A/C, incomprehensible!

I've got down-SETI electrical bills at 15e/month, when SETI is up it costs twice that.

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Message 1050901 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 23:17:58 UTC - in response to Message 1050899.  

I'm ashtonished to see how much some of you are willing to pay for crunching SETI. Heating the house at wintertime of course is ok. But how about heating the house, and at the same time cooling it with the A/C, incomprehensible!

I've got down-SETI electrical bills at 15e/month, when SETI is up it costs twice that.


Last night it was in the 30's F, and I had the window partially open because my rig was throwing off too much heat. It may be strange, and I agree with that, but I love doing it.

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Message 1050904 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 23:23:58 UTC - in response to Message 1050624.  

KenzieB: You just pop up a couple of new rigs, boot them up to crunching. Having electrics included in your rent, maybe your landlord doesn't figure it out. It could be some other tenant?
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Message 1050910 - Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 23:34:03 UTC - in response to Message 1050901.  

That's cool, Steve. Especially if you have got the airflow, when needed.
Here in Finland, I'm currently doing Einstein - twist that saying if you want - and happily co-heating my flat with abt. 200W output. Outside is -7 celcius. Nice.
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Message 1051047 - Posted: 25 Nov 2010, 7:40:20 UTC

Count me in the camp of people using their crunching computers to heat a room. My machines were idle due to the project's troubles, but it got cold last week all of a sudden, so I attached to some new projects to give them something to do until our central heater gets fixed...
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Message 1051049 - Posted: 25 Nov 2010, 7:59:19 UTC
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The stove has been co-heating my apartment today.. have not heard the heat come on. No weather report handy but.. chilly outside. The oven should roast me out of here tomorrow. Einstein helps.. But Seti helps more.
<edit> there it is 35F here. 3 over freezing.
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Message 1051119 - Posted: 25 Nov 2010, 16:19:33 UTC

I really had to crank the heat on this morning, north wind at 22 MPH and a temp of 26ËšF. This in a 1969 double wide with no insulation.

I am running around $170/month with 3 rigs crunching and my little electric heaters.

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Message 1051372 - Posted: 26 Nov 2010, 19:41:44 UTC

$.0789/kwh for october
but i'm running hardly any computers anymore.
use to run
5 quads w/260gtx
1 dual W/ 260gtx
4 duals w/9500gt
1 dual w/ 9600gso
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5 p4 3ghz
3 p4 2.8ghz
and assorted laptops.





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Message 1051507 - Posted: 27 Nov 2010, 16:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 1051499.  

I know what you mean Phud. If money was no object then yes, let's fire up every bit of kit we have. But of course it costs real money, and it just makes sense to maximise the return for the outlay.

Many may not agree, but in my honest opinion, it is not practical to run CPU only crunching any more. We NEED that ATI GPU app here ASAP. Seti get more work done, we spend less on electricity to supply that.

Certainly looking at reducing my power bills even further!

I may be able to power up a bit more once I get a New house, As then I can apply for the SASH: Single-family Affordable Solar Homes Program here in California, As I can qualify for a free 1-3KW Photovoltaic system which will cut the cost of My electrical by up to 75%.
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Message 1051514 - Posted: 27 Nov 2010, 18:01:19 UTC - in response to Message 1051507.  

honestly, can't factor it due to the fact that i have a damn pool!!!!!

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