[quote=george]$250 per month to run the pump??!! According to a source I found it’s more like $20/month.
I don’t know how much it costs to run our pool pump, but when I read the post saying $250/month got me concerned enough to check into it. We have a typical size pool (pool builders call it standard size). We run our 1HP pump an average of 5 hrs/day (6 hrs/day in summer and 4 hrs/day in winter). I found a May 2008 chart on-line ( http://www.mid.org/services/save/poolPumpCost0805e.pdf )that shows the power costs for Modesto. I don’t live there, but I figure my area can’t be that different. According to the chart it costs me an average of $20 per month to run the pump. We have solar heating so heatings free. The pool man cost $50 per month.[/quote]
That looks about right. I ran my pumps 14 hours a day because it was 11 feet at the deep end. Never build a deep pool.
My pump used 3.5 horsepower so 750 watts a horsepower for 14 hours a day is about $7.00 a day x 30 or $210 +-
Now add in the gas to heat it and you get another $200-300 a month.
Here is an exercise I found on the Internet on how much it costs for a light bulb:
“A 60 Watt light bulb uses 60 Watts of power in a period of one hour or 60 Watts in one minute or 60 Watts in one second or 60 Watts during any period of time.”
“How much total energy a 60 Watt light bulb “consumes”, which is the amount of electricity that has to be paid-for, is measured in Watt-hours. So a 60 Watt bulb consumes 60 Watt-hours in one hour, or 60 x 24 = 1440 Watt-hours if it is left switched on for 24 hours in one day.
That is the same as 1.44 kiloWatt-hours (kW-h), so, if you look up what your electricity supplier charges for 1 kW-h you can figure out how much it would cost you in money. If 1 kW-h costs you 25 cents, then leaving a 60 Watt light bulb switched on for 24 hours would cost you 1.44 x 25 = 36 cents.”
