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4Dtvman

4Dtvman

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How much is your Electric bill gone up buy using you pellet stove 24/7 for a month.

Tomorrow I will bring an electical cord from work and separate the legs and use a clamp on amp meter and see how many amps this thing draws.


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Mine is 600 watts on start up and 275 to 325 running in medium. average use and with current KW prices, About $25/month! The 4 DVR's we have eat more than that idle!

I got one of them killowatt meters. Cool beans for under $20 bucks!
 
Our most recent bill went up $40. but our past 3 bills were $40 lower than normal for winter.

There are several things that accounted for that along with the pellet stove.

It got colder so the automatic waterers heaters were working more. old man took his truck heater off the timer (I have put it back on), the ceiling fan to move air was on a lot, and the heat tape for the water pipes was running, and our electric water heater is running more with the basement being colder.

so it is hard to say just how much of that is only from the pellet stove.
 
I keep a spreadsheet of my electric usage and cost. The difference from about 3 consecutive years in given months prior to having the pellet stove and presently with running the stove 24/7 is about 100kwh per month. This seems to add on roughly $14-$16 to each months bill.
 
I been using mind on medium most of the time so with a clamp on amp meter I should get a good ideal on how much power I'm using. And since I'm making up the cord I will be able to use it on other products at some time.

My other reason for doing this is that during the winter if we loose power I loose both my heating system. The pellet stove and the oil fired boiler. I can't see the cost of a large generator but might think of a small 1000w unit. For me to run my main boiler and water pump I would need something over 7000 watts and the cost would be over a $1000. In 20 years I've only lost power twice in the winter months and 3 during non- heating season for less than 24 hours.


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Good post, I was curious about this and I'm looking forward to my 1st electric bill with the stove. I have only had the stove a month and I'm wondering how much my electric bill is going to go up. I was thinking it's not just the stove, I run the stove, a fan to push the air and a humidifier. I never had these things on before the stove. It will be interesting to see how much the bill has gone up...
 
Since running my pellet insert and ceiling fans has replaced running two heat pumps, my bill is drastically lower.
 
bbfarm said:
Our most recent bill went up $40. but our past 3 bills were $40 lower than normal for winter.

There are several things that accounted for that along with the pellet stove.

It got colder so the automatic waterers heaters were working more. old man took his truck heater off the timer (I have put it back on), the ceiling fan to move air was on a lot, and the heat tape for the water pipes was running, and our electric water heater is running more with the basement being colder.

so it is hard to say just how much of that is only from the pellet stove.
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About that electric water heater, you can add an insulation blanket and put that on a timer as well to reduce standby losses plus a few other things if you haven't already done any of this yet.
 
My electric bill dropped slightly, not running a ½ HP furnace motor, nor the small circulator motor. We all know about not burning the oil - it's $3.909/gal here.
 
About $15 a month running the Quad on a Kill-a-Watt meter last year. Have yet to measure the furnace. But with a Honkin Huge Distribution blower, Im thinking its gonna be a little more
 
electric bill up about $25 running stove and a couple of heat circulating fans.
 
They raised our rates quite a bit here. I used less electricity this month then I did at this time last year and my bill was $15 higher then last years. Those bastards.What we need now is a pellet stove that produces electricity so I can stick it to the electric company like I did the propane man.
 
j-takeman said:
I got one of them killowatt meters. Cool beans for under $20 bucks!
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My local library used to have these - worth a look - the results were eye opening!
 
I got my 1st electric bill with the Pellet stove this month. Pellet stove, room fan and humidifier running and my electric bill went up $7.00 from the last month... I'm pretty happy with that.
 
Around 40-50 dollars.
 
Definitely invest in a kill-a-watt, they are inexpensive and provide valuable info on kW usage that you can use to determine what it costs to operate your pellet burner monthly and annually. My Fahrenheit pellet furnace pounds about 700W during ignition, and ~250W when the blower is running. The combustion fan and auger alone use about 60W. I don't run my furnace 24x7, overall it costs me about $15-$20 per month to operate.
 
We have two pellet stoves, 1 running 24/7 in the Winter - I think the electric bill increase is somewhere between the $15.00 - $20.00 range, but like others have said - we also are running ceiling fans and other things are working overtime probably, like the water heater - etc.
 
MarkF48 said:
I keep a spreadsheet of my electric usage and cost. The difference from about 3 consecutive years in given months prior to having the pellet stove and presently with running the stove 24/7 is about 100kwh per month. This seems to add on roughly $14-$16 to each months bill.
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Bubbles!!!
 
4Dtvman said:
How much is your Electric bill gone up buy using you pellet stove 24/7 for a month.

Tomorrow I will bring an electical cord from work and separate the legs and use a clamp on amp meter and see how many amps this thing draws.


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This is meaningless without knowing cost per kwh you are being charged.
 
get you one of these and you will know exactly what it cost.

Kill A Watt Electricity Usage Monitor
Kill-A-Watt-Electricity-Usage-Monitor-Kilowatt-Hour-Meter-502910-PRODUCT-MEDIUM_IMAGE.jpg
 
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