Branching off from another thread,
Just paid my last electric bill for $329.00 and pence. What are some of me fellow crunchers paying to keep up the good fight?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Branching off from another thread,
Just paid my last electric bill for $329.00 and pence. What are some of me fellow crunchers paying to keep up the good fight?

$663.15

Only about $140 per month, including AC. But my office is in a City with cheap electricity. If I move across the street and have to pay PG&E, that bill would be triple.

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Branching off from another thread,
Just paid my last electric bill for $329.00 and pence. What are some of me fellow crunchers paying to keep up the good fight?

$663.15

Got your own 4800v transformer, eh?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Branching off from another thread,
Just paid my last electric bill for $329.00 and pence. What are some of me fellow crunchers paying to keep up the good fight?

$663.15

Got your own 4800v transformer, eh?

Heck, go BIG, lol, hook up to a 69 kV erector set utility line - stay clear of the light bulbs when you turn them on ;-)

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Here in Sweden i pay about 120 dollars a month roughly..

Regards Vyper

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Addicted to SETI crunching!
Founder of GPU Users Group

Last one a couple days ago, $232. May go higher in Aug...

-Dave

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here in the uk i pay about £60.00 a month $120.not to bad at the moment the price has come down twice this year thank goodness.

greenfinger

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Usually under $80 but with AC on, it was $128 this month. I only keep the thermostat at 80 deg F.

Usually around 300-400. I know people who pay 800 and they dont run seti. lol

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To give everyone an idea on power costs-

From tests that we've done here at work, I know that a standard 3.0GHz P4 Dell PC with a Gig of RAM draws a steady 150 watts running the SETI@home science app 100% of the time.

That works out to about $10.15 per month at 9.44 cents per kilowatt. If the system were to idle all month, it would probably cost about $6.00 per month. So for this desktop, it costs roughly $5 - $10 to crunch SETI depending on how you use the computer.

Now if you have an overclocked system or a Quad-core, you possibly could be doubling that power consumption due to the power-hungry CPU and graphics accelerator card or $10 - $20 per month to crunch SETI per system.

HTH,
Brock

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too much :)

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

To give everyone an idea on power costs-

From tests that we've done here at work, I know that a standard 3.0GHz P4 Dell PC with a Gig of RAM draws a steady 150 watts running the SETI@home science app 100% of the time.

That works out to about $10.15 per month at 9.44 cents per kilowatt. If the system were to idle all month, it would probably cost about $6.00 per month. So for this desktop, it costs roughly $5 - $10 to crunch SETI depending on how you use the computer.

Now if you have an overclocked system or a Quad-core, you possibly could be doubling that power consumption due to the power-hungry CPU and graphics accelerator card or $10 - $20 per month to crunch SETI per system.

HTH,
Brock

Uhhh, you weren't counting on the OC'd quaddy with the 700w power supply and a 1/2 hp phase cooling compressor strapped on top.
But then, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

$96/mo w/ AC; 2 story; 2400 sq ft; suburban cookie cutter house; 3 adults, 2 dogs, big TV (almost 12x7), big stereo, and 9 PC's going 24x7. Oh, yeah, and 1 solar powered fan on the roof to try to keep things kooool. (about 34 kWhr/day) And, a bunch of tax to pay for people who don't pay their bills. Maybe they aren't running seti.

i`m live in latvia ( east europe ) 1kwh cost 9cents, my bill in one month for electric have 30$

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£37/month for gas & electricity at present. Cheap eh?

Kit your home out with low energy light bulbs, turn lights out when not in use, turn down the water heater thermostat to 56 degrees and you too could reap the benefits of cheaper bills.

During winter it is cheaper to leave your heating on during the day by turning the thermostat down to 15 centigrade and turning it back up to your comfort level when you come back in. (The boiler does not have to burn constantly for four hours to reach the required temp, should only take one hour)

Graeme.
www.boincuk.com

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Been about $130/mo. That was before I added a Mac Pro to the mix, this month could be interesting. (Was $50/$60 pre Boinc)

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Boinc Button Abuser In Training >My Shrubbers<

To give everyone an idea on power costs-

From tests that we've done here at work, I know that a standard 3.0GHz P4 Dell PC with a Gig of RAM draws a steady 150 watts running the SETI@home science app 100% of the time.

That works out to about $10.15 per month at 9.44 cents per kilowatt. If the system were to idle all month, it would probably cost about $6.00 per month. So for this desktop, it costs roughly $5 - $10 to crunch SETI depending on how you use the computer.

Now if you have an overclocked system or a Quad-core, you possibly could be doubling that power consumption due to the power-hungry CPU and graphics accelerator card or $10 - $20 per month to crunch SETI per system.

HTH,
Brock

Uhhh, you weren't counting on the OC'd quaddy with the 700w power supply and a 1/2 hp phase cooling compressor strapped on top.
But then, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.........

Well.........
Just took some measurements with my Kill-A-Watt, and found out that......

The OC'd quaddy draws about 299 watts, 300va from the mains, with an almost perfect power factor of .99 under full Seti crunching load.
The phase cooling compressor (which keeps the quaddy comfy at -29 degrees c) is drawing about 540w, 850va from the mains, with a perfectly crappy power factor of .64 (I don't remember whether actual measured watts or power factor compensated va is registered by the power meter).
Sooo....at a local cost of 11.92 cents per kwh, that comes out to around $2.40 per day to crunch Seti, or about $69.60 for 29 days (if you use the wattage number for the phase cooler, if you use the va number, it's more like $3.29/day, $95.32 a month).
Of course, that's not counting the other 7 rigs, or the A/C that's running 24/7 to keep everything from melting down. The A/C uses about 1,440 watts, or $4.12 per day, $119.00 a month.
Geeezz. It's no wonder the electric bill headed for the stars (no pun intended) when I started fueling my Seti addiction with more OCd crunchers.

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Well.........
Just took some measurements with my Kill-A-Watt, and found out that......

The OC'd quaddy draws about 299 watts, 300va from the mains, with an almost perfect power factor of .99 under full Seti crunching load.

When you are sizing equipment (wire gauge, UPS or generator capacity) it's all about VA.

When you pay the power company, you pay for watts.

So, unless you're the power company, a good power factor generally isn't that important.

For the discussion, about $130/month. The first 10 KWH each day costs about $0.10, the last 5 KWH each day costs $0.29.

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Well.........
Just took some measurements with my Kill-A-Watt, and found out that......

The OC'd quaddy draws about 299 watts, 300va from the mains, with an almost perfect power factor of .99 under full Seti crunching load.

When you are sizing equipment (wire gauge, UPS or generator capacity) it's all about VA.

When you pay the power company, you pay for watts.

So, unless you're the power company, a good power factor generally isn't that important.

For the discussion, about $130/month. The first 10 KWH each day costs about $0.10, the last 5 KWH each day costs $0.29.

I'm on 'time of use' rates. I used to save a lot of money with that, because the 'on peak' rate is .200170/kwh, and the 'off peak' rate is just .038260/kwh. I have my electric hot water heater, water bed heater, and a dehumidifer in the basement locked out during the day with an X10 remote control system, so they only run during the cheap 'off peak' rates. But the kitties leave the crunchers on 24/7, so it averages out to the .1192/kwh figure.
I could slash my bill if I was willing to only crunch 12 hours a day, but what's the fun in that?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster