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Yup, the hydro bills are a bit of a sore point with the Missus.

Im not going to tell mine. It would probably cost me a trip to mexico.

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Originally Posted by PoonTang (Post 594884)

Ya this one really hurt. $450 and i dont even run those wicked 400w halides like you serious reefers do lol

OMFG!!! My boo pays our hydro bill and he biatches when it gets close to a hun. Pssss I run double 400's:mrgreen:

Ouch. Sorry to hear man.

Watch out for the grow-op police!!!! :biggrin:

Looks like I need to buy some more frags from ya

How often do you get actual meter readings? Some places I've lived in the past would always estimate my usage, sometimes for many months in a row, and then I'd get stuck with a huge bill when they did an actual reading.

try put on a AUTO SHUT OFF VALVE...

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Originally Posted by PoonTang (Post 594871)

I have my RODI unit mounted to my basement wall above a sink and the water is fed from the fawcett. I usually just leave the tap turned on and the temp set for around 70 so that the membrane runs most efficently and my waste water just runs down the drain and the good water runs into a bucket with a float valve. Normally the bucket fills, the float closes and the backpressure causes the auto shut off device to stop the water flow to the membrane, and i then always have a bucket of water ready for use. Well i guess at some point the auto valve failed and the fawcett stayed running and was just feeding waste water, WARM waste water, :sad: down the drain for days? weeks? at a rate of at least 10 G per hour. Got my hydro bill today and it is more than double its normal rate and my usage is twice what it was last month and this month last year by comparison. I cannot for the life of me think of anything else that it could be, every other big power consumer in the house seems to be functioning properly. God I hate water.

I had the same problem when I first hooked up my auto shutoff, I hooked it up incorrectly. I don't know what the bill ended up being though. My wife pays the bills and she didn't mention or complain about the bill size. :D