How much is air conditioning heating for you?

Question

Hi my electricity provider charges 12kwH

How much is it costing you to turn my air conditioning (normal air conditioning unit like most that came with the place) on HEAT?

If you don't know..then how much do you pay per month during this time of th eyear? Thanks all

Doing research for scool

SK

Answer 1

do you mean your electricity costs 12p per kwh ?

How much is it costng ME to turn on YOUR A/c ???

How much do I pay for what? My total electricity bill or the tiny fraction that goes on the A/C ??

I would like to try and help you with an answer - but you REALLY need to add alittlemore text to CLEARLY explain what you actually want to know.

I am not trying to moan at you grammar etc - but the question is SO misleading I truly have no idea *quite* what you want to know.

Air conditioning heating?
"like most that came with the place"

PLEASE add more info and read back what you put before you submit it - then we can give you some helpful replies.

Mark

Answer 2

You have to look at your heater and see what the rated load is. If it uses a resistance heater for heat it may actually say something like 2000 W.

If you know the wattage, you can easily convert to Kwhr.

A kwH is a kilowatt-hour or the equivalet of pulling one kilowatt (1000 Watts) for one hour.

Lets say you have a 2000W heater (thats 2kw). Although your problem statement is a little confusing, I assume the provider charges $.12 per kwhr (that would be 12cnts per kwhr assuming you are using US dollars, otherwise the 12 is in whatever currency you use).

If you pull 2000W (2kw) for one hour, you only pay $.24 for that hour.

2000 W is a small heater. My daughters hair dryer is 2000W.

If you pull 20,000W for one hour you pay $2.40.

Good luck with this. The hard part is to find out what size heating load your heater has.

If you find an Amp rating instead of a Watt rating on your heater then you can convert by multiplying the amps by the voltage you use (in the US either 110V, normal socket, or 220V large special socket) to get Watts.