LEDs and electricity savings

[sphelps]

Could be people using a variable electricity rate, which I had last year and it changed from $0.06 to $0.14 throughout the year. Otherwise could be those using chillers at certain times of the year or a number of other reasons relating to equipment changes and tank demands but nothing that shouldn't be fairly obvious to the user.

Yes savings for me works out to around $10-$13 per month.

[ocean diver]

So let say $120-$156 savings per year plus the costs of Bulbs you would replace. Depending on how many T5's you have plus halides.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by ocean diver

So let say $120-$156 savings per year plus the costs of Bulbs you would replace. Depending on how many T5's you have plus halides.

Yeah probably roughly $150 per year in power savings. If I only ran 3 halides which I somehow managed to run at 340W for 6 hours per day I'd probably only change the bulbs once a year so it depends what you pay for bulbs but I say around $400 per year. Given the cost of the fixtures it's around 8 years pay back. Given the total cost of my LED adventure the pay back period would be substantially longer So LEDs haven't and won't actually save me money.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by sphelps

Yeah probably roughly $150 per year in power savings. If I only ran 3 halides which I somehow managed to run at 340W for 6 hours per day I'd probably only change the bulbs once a year so it depends what you pay for bulbs but I say around $400 per year. Given the cost of the fixtures it's around 8 years pay back. Given the total cost of my LED adventure the pay back period would be substantially longer So LEDs haven't and won't actually save me money.

Something that I proved in a thread few weeks back

Hint: Just don't tell the dominating factor (eg. wife, girlfriend, not-reef safe person) how much you spent upfront for getting the LEDs and they will be happy with the upfront electricity bill savings

[ocean diver]

LOL that is because you bought Lights (3 x Mitra) that are in my opinion way over priced, but hey each to there own.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by ocean diver

LOL that is because you bought Lights (3 x Mitra) that are in my opinion way over priced, but hey each to there own.

LED industry itself is overpriced :P