How many monthly kilowatt hours, including hi-fi, do you use?


I’m proud to say my monthly kilowatt usage is approximately 400 kWh and rises to 450 or so in the summer with air conditioning. Each night use about 4 kwh for my audio gear which includes 30 tubes mostly in amplifiers. Yes this is the worst of my sins using a tube amplifier.

Curious if you know how much you use and if so how much is it?

I’m a big proponent of conserving electricity to help out the planet.

emergingsoul

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@tsacremento 

That's a lot of electricity. I would guess a lot of it relates to the pool.

I saw your audio space and my gosh there's a lot going on here. And I bet it's really really quiet in the desert to appreciate everything.

I see you also like cats.  

So I'm gonna spend some time carefully reviewing all that you've done with your system and looking forward to learning a lot. 

Thanks for sharing

fyi, I am paying $.20 per kilowatt hour including distribution, or about $85 a month. This is pseg in New Jersey

I think $.20 per kilowatt hour is not so bad.  I think us audio people should be more sympathetic and not leave our equipment on all the time.

I turn on all my tubes about an hour before and they run for about 4 to 5 hours and then they go to sleep when I do.

Otherwise, I loath incandescent bulbs and think they have no place in your home and are grossly wasteful.  And while many in the audiophile world may be a very wealthy nature I think we all should be concerned about Energy use.