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TerryLennox
Oct 12, 2009

There is nothing tougher than a tough Mexican, just as there is nothing gentler than a gentle Mexican, nothing more honest than an honest Mexican, and above all nothing sadder than a sad Mexican. -R. Chandler.
An electric thread! I salute all electric engineers and technicians, you guys got real balls to work in that field.

I am an electronic engineer myself so I don't work with anything higher than 120v (not that it isn't dangerous).

I have a few questions related to residential power so if it is off topic let me know.

Why would a power bill increase monthly by 10% in less than 6 months?

Basically, our power bill has skyrocketed. I live with my dad and we both work full time so we are less than 12 hours at home each day. Yet we have seen our power bill go up 10~20% each month on this year.

I am aware we are running two ACs at night (non-inverters) but what worries me is the climb in our bill. We have 3 PCs running intermittently (they go to sleep mode when we are not using them) but most of the day, there is no one home to use that much power. Recently my brother has come to live with us and as a pilot, his work schedule is kind of irregular and he is a heavy sleeper so my AC is probably being used 12 hours a day. Is that the only cause of the power increase? Is there a way to calculate our power usage?

We are thinking of investing about 1200 to get new ACs (those Gen 2 beauties that claim to save up to 60% of a regular AC power usage) but is there something else we should check?

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TerryLennox
Oct 12, 2009

There is nothing tougher than a tough Mexican, just as there is nothing gentler than a gentle Mexican, nothing more honest than an honest Mexican, and above all nothing sadder than a sad Mexican. -R. Chandler.

The Cleaner posted:

Stupid question, but the following building is right near property I'm interested in buying. I'm assuming this is water treatment, not electric power?



Illuminati chemtrail juice storage tank. Trespass and refuse to leave until they prove its not going to be used to mind control the American public. Let us know which channel to watch. :freep:

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