BAD NEWS: POWER bill hits hipno650

[[XC] hipno650]

my folks got the power bill for this month and:( :( :( i am limited to having 4 rigs on at a time for now until winter or other sources of income hit. i think i should pay some of the power bill to get them off my back!:(

[[XC] serlv]

my folks got the power bill for this month and:( :( :( i am limited to having 4 rigs on at a time for now until winter or other sources of income hit. i think i should pay some of the power bill to get them off my back!:(

yeah, that'd be a good idea...


i'm afraid to open my latest. matter of fact, where did I put i? :)

[Movieman]

Welcome to the darkside of DC..Electrical cost is becoming a killer..

[Firechicken]

yeah, that'd be a good idea...


i'm afraid to open my latest. matter of fact, where did I put i? :)


Maby you can shake it and all the numbers from the line where they say they own your soul will just magicly fall off and turn to Zero's. Hmm where might have I have seen that before? lol.


Edit: Hmm friend of mine works for the hand in my wall..er I mean power company and showed me a way to make the meter run slower heh still haven't done it but i'm sure it has crossed some of you bigger guy's minds eh? nooo not me? shhhhhhhhh. (j/k wouldn't want anyone getting into trouble)

[[XC] hipno650]

more bad news!!!!!:mad: i live in the country so we get power surges (power shuts off for 5sec then comes back on) and guess what bam!!!!!! i was just suffing the net then boom powers off! i just reset all my rigs back online but all the wu they were working on might be invalid or screwed! dang:(

[Firechicken]

more bad news!!!!!:mad: i live in the country so we get power surges (power shuts off for 5sec then comes back on) and guess what bam!!!!!! i was just suffing the net then boom powers off! i just reset all my rigs back online but all the wu they were working on might be invalid or screwed! dang:(


Sounds like a few good ol UPS's good for a good 30 min each min run time are something to put up on the shopping list. For me on a tighter budget I would rather buy somthing that boosts my wcg or dc project mark but that ups could save it all one day.

[STEvil]

I have 3 UPS's.. in the last 2 days the electrical system in this house has begun to fall apart.

two complete circuits quite working, several circuits "brown out" when you run more than one thing on them, and the upstairs stove's bottom element arced BIGTIME!

When the element was removed the circuit attached to the stove quit working (about 4 plugs).


Time to call an electrician..

[Firechicken]

Wow Stevil, hope everything is ok there man, would sure hate to hear somthing like a fire or anything hit you. Be safe, hope you can get it all back in working order.

[[XC] hipno650]

Sounds like a few good ol UPS's good for a good 30 min each min run time are something to put up on the shopping list. For me on a tighter budget I would rather buy somthing that boosts my wcg or dc project mark but that ups could save it all one day.

i have never had anything blow up yet. but ya that would be a good idea. but the money is not there:(

[[XC] moddolicous]

Where do you live hipno? A drive over to RSmure's place might be worthwhile.

[[XC] leviathan18]

send the rigs to me ive said like 10000 times i pay almost nothing

[kiwi]

Free electricity in Venezuela, cool :p: :D

[[XC] MarioMaster]

recently i've been looking into buying a UPS, last night as the remnants of a hurricane went past, the power must've gone out/came back on 20-30 times last night, was really annoying my printer kept doing the self check thing every time and would wake me up (ended up turning off power strip) and it messed up the central air for a while, the compressor would run without the evap fan and the evap would turn into a block of ice

[[cTx]Philosophy]

I dont even wanna see what thjis months bill is gonna be

The whole state of md had a 72% increase on the power bil addition

We avg 3-350 a month before the rigs came online @ 100%

[itznfb]

my elec bill went from $30 to $97. and that was with only 1 rig running.

[mike047]

my elec bill went from $30 to $97. and that was with only 1 rig running.

What kind of rig is it???

An average DC AMD will cost about $8/9 a month @ .08 per Kw. your power rate might be higher but, $67 for one rig means something is wrong.
I run 38 boxes for about $300 a month.

[Haltech]

What kind of rig is it???

An average DC AMD will cost about $8/9 a month @ .08 per Kw. your power rate might be higher but, $67 for one rig means something is wrong.
I run 38 boxes for about $300 a month.

I livei n Ca and will tell you, 38 rigs would cost me about $5000 a month to run...

7 rigs costs me $488 a month...

[mike047]

I livei n Ca and will tell you, 38 rigs would cost me about $5000 a month to run...

7 rigs costs me $488 a month...


WOW, how much a Kw??

I haven't lived on the coast since 77, it was cheaper then, PG&E, I think back then.

[zillaoc]

2 large extension cords burried a few inches under the ground to the rich neibors house does the trick :fact: k/j sorta...

[Haltech]

This should give you an idea...

Your daily average cost this period excluding Utility User Tax (UUT) is : $ 10.01
A) Delivery Related Charges:
Basic Charge
Energy Charge:
Baseline-Summer
B) Generation Related Charges:
DWR Generation:
Baseline-Summer
SCE Generation:
Baseline-Summer
Over Baseline 1%-30%
Over Baseline 1%-30%
Over Baseline 1%-30%
Over Baseline 31%-100%
Over Baseline 31%-100%
Over Baseline 31%-100%
Over Baseline 101-200%
Over Baseline 101-200%
More Than 200%
Over Baseline 101-200%
More Than 200%
More than 200%
DWR Bond Charge
Delivery Subtotal
Generation Subtotal
Of your total charges, Franchise Fees represent : $2.59
Percentage of energy provided by DWR this period : 25.117 %
Service Voltage : 240 Volts
Max Summer Baseline Allocation : 10.2 kWh per day x 29 days = 295.8 kWh
Your average Summer usage : 41.79 kWh per day x 29 days = 1212.0 kWh
29 Days x $ 0.02900
296 kWh x $ 0.06244
74 kWh x $ 0.10369
222 kWh x $ 0.03073
89 kWh x $ 0.06244
22 kWh x $ 0.10369
67 kWh x $ 0.05739
207 kWh x $ 0.06244
52 kWh x $ 0.10369
155 kWh x $ 0.17488
296 kWh x $ 0.06244
74 kWh x $ 0.10369
81 kWh x $ 0.10369
222 kWh x $ 0.29749
243 kWh x $ 0.29749
324 kWh x $ 0.06244
1,212 kWh x $ 0.00485
1,212 kWh
1,212 kWh

[itznfb]

my AC costs may have attributed to the raise. but i'm not sure. i have the AC off now, hopefully this month will be cool and i can keep it off.

[mike047]

WOW what a bill, I think I figured it out, I don't know. It was much more simple when I was there.

I realize, NOW, how fortunate I am to have cheap electricity and am able to fund this many crunchers.

It dawns on me that this is something the DC adminstrators should consider when awarding points....It cost you way more to make 1K in points than I or maybe many others......rewards should reflect the cost of the donation of time and expense.

This something I had not fully considered before.

I am glad that I have found this out.

It adds an entirely different complexion to entire crunching community, for me.

My hats off to those who spend far more for utilities than I to make a contribution to DC in general and to support the DC teams, where ever they might be.

[mike047]

my AC costs may have attributed to the raise. but i'm not sure. i have the AC off now, hopefully this month will be cool and i can keep it off.

It should cool off now, I live south of you and it is becoming comfortable here, especially at night.

I have considered setting up some more "winter" crunchers as my FAN portion of the electric bill will fund electricty for more boxes.

I didn't use but 10gal heating oil last year and probalby won't use any this year.

[[XC] serlv]

I livei n Ca and will tell you, 38 rigs would cost me about $5000 a month to run...

7 rigs costs me $488 a month...

I'm running more than 7. I'm also paying more than that much. My last bill was 5something. This month will probably be the worse.

[[XC] hipno650]

ya i live in canada and it gets pretty cold up here in the winter so the added heat will be welcome!!!!! so i increase the power bill but lower the gas bill:D

[Got Chow]

You guys are "lucky." With 3 desktops 24/7 (1 DC, others SC), and 2 laptops, our electric bill was $715. I do also have a fishtank and had the A/C running inconsistently, but that was quite a hit. This is with 3 people living in a 2200 sq. ft. house... Needless to say, crunching went down, and not all my rigs are 24/7 now. The highest rate at 300% over baseline is 34 cents/KWh. Not cheap....

[Ehwaz001]

I have 9 rigs total here. Don't have to pay anything since my folks agree with the DC project and are involved in it. Maybe you could get them interested and then they could grant you some more rigs for the project?

[[XC] hipno650]

I have 9 rigs total here. Don't have to pay anything since my folks agree with the DC project and are involved in it. Maybe you could get them interested and then they could grant you some more rigs for the project?

they are very interested and support me 100% my dad lets me run it on his celly 1.5 overnight! and have a personal conection to cancer so they are very supportive:) but they have never seen a power bill so big:(

[rob725]

:eek: You guys are scaring me; my electric bill is already big. Just have to wait and see.

[rob725]

Since the resource is given to a not-for-profit org, has anyone tried to write-off their energy-bill increase? Seems like we could as long as documentation is up to par.

[Firechicken]

Since the resource is given to a not-for-profit org, has anyone tried to write-off their energy-bill increase? Seems like we could as long as documentation is up to par.

I'm not sure about how that would work, I mean here you give an old junker to the kidney foundation and get to write that off as 50 dollars @tax time, but I think (from thier view(govt.)+ power company) it would become hard to show exact ammounts of energy being consumed by the dc project and would prob say somthing along the lines of well you could be running somthing else like pot growing lamps ect.. You raise a very good point and idea if it could be done that would sure help alot of you guys with big hydro bills, even little guys like me would notice the kick back at the end of the year, good thought rob.

[rob725]

Well, since the stats are being accumulated, if you kept good logs and could correlate energy draw, you might be able to make a pretty solid case. I'll talk to a cpa and report back.

[[XC] riptide]

Man all your bills are crazy. Well my Dad who lives on his own in a 3 bedroom house has offered to house whatever PC's i want. So if my farm ever gets big... it'll be 'Hello Dadums, look what Rippy brought for you'.
Has anyone toyed with the idea of using a small-medium diesel/petrol powered generator? If you knew you could get it for free/cheap might be worth the while. Now i ain't ever done generators, but i wonder how much an hour would one cost to run full trottle? Anyone?