First power bill inclusive of 24/7 mining rigs...

sadpandatech

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Mine went up 14x!

lol. u serious?

Mine actually went down $50 from same month last year. Running 4x5830 extremely OC'd all month. My power definetly does not get cheaper at my house if I use more. Here in FL its pretty consistent throughout the state for residential at .09 -.13 per KWh. Mine is at the lower end of that. Which reminds me, the nuclear plant I was getting supplied by in Windermere was still over .10 KWh.

I keep anything substantialy power consuming at a business location that is on a tiered plan that I am usually in the .08713 bracket for. Not really sure what the other brackets are under 10k KWh and over 20k KWh since I have been in the same pricing for several years now.

I still think no matter what aynones costs are we're all a bunch of anti-hippies with all this juice consumption....

Infinity1

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I'm OG

My cost is about $0.0909/kWh. I'm running a GTX 550 Ti (60-80M) with a 500W power supply. How much would my bill be for the computer itself. Even if it's a crazy price I'm going to keep mining since my landlord pays my power bill.

bluefirecorp

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Quote from: rph on October 12, 2011, 01:20:57 AM

Quote from: Zor on October 08, 2011, 09:06:48 PM

So yea, if I was at 950 kWh for the month or so and billing was about to cycle it would actually pay me to find some hair dryers and get them running.

I'm guessing it's a marginal rate: The lower rate is only for kWhr over the first 1k.
The first 1k are always at the higher rate. Unless the power company is stupid
and wants to encourage waste...

-rph

Actually, it's similar for me.

The first 500 kWh, they charge a slightly higher price, but all the electricity after that is discounted.

No matter how much electricity I use in a month (over 500 kWh), I still pay the same amount for the electricity.

Well, here's this month's bill: (First 500 times rate + the extra fees + the usage after 500 (3730 was total usage) + rate + fees) + the tax and service fee.

(500 * (0.085 + 0.0098)) + (((3730 - 500) * (0.072 + 0.0098)) + 16.52 + 6.25)

TurboK

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Hehe. Makes me glad I pay a monthly average, with yearly counting for the balance difference. I'm kinda afraid of the bill I'm getting in next february. But, it shouldn't be too different from what I got last year, when I run md5 cracking and used a 500w plasma tv as my main monitor for months.

bronan

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For me is weird to read the big differences in electricity prices, today i heard that usa and chile seems to have different prices when temps go down or up.
In the netherlands its all year round the same price.
We pay a monthly fee in my case 244,83 euro
In october the fun BIG total comes in where you finally can see what you actually used.
Which in most cases mean pay alot more.
I guess ill beat the 8200 kwh from last year again, if it goes above 10k we get a nice bonus penalty on the bill.

rph

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Quote from: Zor on October 08, 2011, 09:06:48 PM

So yea, if I was at 950 kWh for the month or so and billing was about to cycle it would actually pay me to find some hair dryers and get them running.

I'm guessing it's a marginal rate: The lower rate is only for kWhr over the first 1k.
The first 1k are always at the higher rate. Unless the power company is stupid
and wants to encourage waste...

-rph

wndrbr3d

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I'm in TX, USA and I'm at $0.091/khw flat rate. I only have two mining rigs running (2x 6870, 2x5830) and my electric bill has only been about $50 higher the last couple months.

Zor

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If I go over 1k kWh my rate is .079 per kWh. (big difference from Edison in California, here the more you use, the more you save)

If I go under 1k kWh my rate is .098 per kWh.

So yea, if I was at 950 kWh for the month or so and billing was about to cycle it would actually pay me to find some hair dryers and get them running.

I can shave off about an extra cent if I wired up my garage.

I live in Appalachia / South Atlantic.

Kermee

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Quote from: rph on October 08, 2011, 12:39:29 AM

Nice work wrapping the power meter Grin

I'd imagine the pacific northwest has the lowest retail power rates in the US.

Break-even in socal is around $4/BTC, not counting cooling.

-rph

I've seen some places ~$0.06/kWh in the U.S., inclusive of all delivery charges. But PNW isn't too bad. It use to be a lot lower ~$0.04/kWh a little over a decade ago.

Cheers,
Kermee

wndrbr3d

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I'm nearing the point of profitability with BTC prices at $4. I'll have to shutdown mining if it lands at or below $3.50 for more than a couple days.

rph

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Nice work wrapping the power meter Grin

I'd imagine the pacific northwest has the lowest retail power rates in the US.

Break-even in socal is around $4/BTC, not counting cooling.

-rph

Kermee

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Next bill...

Still no cops...

... And yes, still making a tidy profit. Break-even point @ current difficulty of 1689334 is $2.02 USD/BTC.

Cheers,
Kermee

DrKennethNoisewater

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Quote from: Vwlopez3 on August 14, 2011, 02:00:46 AM

$850 for first full month fuck Southern California Edison its ridiculous.

WOW!

How many gHash are you running?

mikethebodacious

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Quote from: Desolator on August 11, 2011, 07:48:19 PM

Mine's been running since like mid to late July and I slapped a Kill-a-watt meter on it and added 1 more card since. So my seriously OCed 5830 pair are pulling about 460W at the moment and it's logged 172 KWH so far. @ 12.6 cents each that's a mere $21.67.

But wait, there's more Grin

That's approximately what I made exchanging currency on tradehill. You know, buy low, sell high, that kinda thing Tongue

So I guess I'm mining for free Grin

hehehe.

Excellent idea mate, that's what I've been doing too. Keep a good amount of cash and BTC in your exchange account so you can trade in and out of the swings (they've been happening at the end and beginning of the week for the most part, usually at off-hours if you live in the US due to the foreign BTC markets). Just reading up and following the technical indicators along with some practice will help you make some well-educated guesses which should help pay off your electric bill easier Grin

relmeas

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so what's the problem? according to my calculations, 57 GPU should make at least $1600 per month at current difficulty and $10 per btc so you should be fine.

NothinG

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Quote from: sgravina on August 14, 2011, 09:42:44 PM

Here is my second full month bill. I started with 3 cards on May 29 and gradually built up to 25 cards today.

$337

You trolled last month's bill.

sgravina

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Here is my second full month bill. I started with 3 cards on May 29 and gradually built up to 25 cards today.

The bill is what I was expecting based on my energy use measurements. My rate is $0.155 / kWh.

Balance so far after two months:

Computer stuff $-9,700
Electricity -570

Bitcoins sold $4,330
_______

profit $-5,940

Vwlopez3

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$850 for first full month fuck Southern California Edison its ridiculous.

DrKennethNoisewater

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U got some cheap ass power there bud......

I'm going to be paying at least, .22/kwh

sveetsnelda

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Yeah... this is at $0.129 per Kwh. 38x6970's, 4x5870's, 8x6870's, and 1x5750:

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