December Electric Bill

[trekster]

Not bad at all.  In fact it is a bargain!  Best I can tell is it cost me between $150 and $175 to run the show for 5 weeks. 

Ron

[Jeffl]

I narrowed mine down to $1 per hour.  $30 per week.

[bcstuff]

My entire bill for December was only $125 and the show ran for 3 weeks in December. 

30k LEDs, 1400 node mega tree, and 400 node star ran 5hrs a day.

The funny thing is that the bill for November was $133, of course temps for December here in SW Florida were between 60 at night and 80 during the day.

[jnealand]

My December bill was up only $29 over November.  But I have almost all LEDs.

[elcommandante]

Mine was up $31 over November, running a mixture of LEDs and incan minis. Less than last year!

[deanathpc]

I think mine was no more than $200 for the end of Nov and all of Dec.  I'm waiting on the next bill to be sure though.  I know my usage was up per the graph on my bill but still waiting to see the end results.

Not bad in general though.  Not like I thought it was going to be!!  Thankfully the majority of lights I had out there were LED's.  Maybe this year I can convert the others over so it's even less painful!

Dean

[mms]

Mine was only $10 more than last year.  Last year's set up was much simpler though (Mr. Christmas 6-channel).  But I added three 500-light mini trees, more candy canes 96 lights total, a 400-light door arch, 50 lights in Eeyore, and 2 "night light" presents.  All incans.  Plus, I had a dedicated show computer running 24x7.

My show ran 5-9 Sunday-Thursday and 5-10 Friday and Saturday.

Still trying to convince myself that the cost of LEDs/SS is worth the initial upfront investment.  I'm just not seeing it.  I know one of the huge advantages of SS is the fact you can have any color, but for a Christmas display, I'm good for now.