Electricity

With heat lamps and UTHs, does owning a snake boost your electricity bill?

You betcha! My electric bill went up a little. But that's because I have 2 oil filled heaters in my room.

Around how much would it increase your bill per year?

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Originally Posted by NicolasWSOP

Around how much would it increase your bill per year?

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it would depend on how many snakes and if you had separate heat for that room

The room would be my bedroom, which is around 70/72 degrees. And I would only own one snake, but eventually I will probably own more hahah..

So for just one snake at 70/72, how much per year?

I heat my room to 82 degrees because I keep numerous animals. It's easier to keep stable temps and less stressful on my end worrying.

I think, and it'd be a guess, my electric bill went up anywhere from 240 a year to 480 a year. Between 20 and 40 a month. But that's also heating 8 cages with flexwatt on a thermostat.

Ok I think that's all the information I need... thank you everyone for your help!

For your set up it shouldn't go up more than 10-15 dollars per month.

my guess would be like 5-10 a month depending on your local rates

mine did a little but not that much i do know the ac stays on longer cause of the heat the lamps put out but i have them on tstats so there are off and on and off again

With a 1 UTH and 1 lamp or 2 UTHs for one snake your increase will be negligable.

This is actually easy to calculate. Take the wattage of your heat source. Multiply it by 720(24hours a day, 30 days a month). Then multiply it by your wattage cost. remember you are typically charged by the kilowatt. A kilowatt is 1000 watts. I do this to figure out how much my snakes cost in electricity for the month. If you want to know yearly multiply it by 8760. Remember that is the max it will cost. If your thermostat turns on and off it will be less. My herpstat pro gives me % use so i was able to figure out my bill even closer.

just give me some numbers and I will count it for you... for example my one:

UTH - 22W, running 24/7
light - 2W, running 13hrs a day
night bulb - 14W, running 2-3 hrs a day
plus rate ($$ for 1kWh) - 0.25$
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sum for 24hrs = 596W (about 600W/day), that's 0.025kWh...
average sum for month (30 days) = 0.75kWh

result: if 1kWh is 5$ I would pay with my month consumption 0.75kWh about $3.75 monthly :D... however my one is 25cents... so I pay about one dollar per month :)

2 watt light bulb really that can't put off much heat

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Originally Posted by snakedork

2 watt light bulb really that can't put off much heat

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nor is it needed

Great math work there!

My house is at 80 during spring and summer and 75 in fall and winter. I got my first bp in the fall. I've had 3 more since. With all 4 tanks going 24/7, it has not affected my electric bill much. And that's fall/winter where my house temp is lower. So, yeah, a buck or two a month sounds like a good answer.

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Originally Posted by snakedork

2 watt light bulb really that can't put off much heat

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I do not have it for heating at all :) only for light... (it's LED bulb and producing the same light as 10W common bulb...)

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Thanks everyone..

This was the most likely the last step in convincing my mother to let me get a BP! :banana:

My bill didnt go up very much when i had one... its when you get to owning more critters that the bills start to become much more noticably higher haha

you guys wanna check this out. I have maintained reef Aquariums for years.....some of my tanks in the past cost 150$ a month alone to run. So this tool is very useful.

http://www.reefcentral.com/calc/tank_elec_calc.php :gj: :gj:

I was just going to link the thread you just posted Xgetsome....lol Beat me to it.:rolleye2: Darn night owl :)