electricity usage ?????

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Which would cost more to run for a half an hour... a 220 stove top or a 1000 watt hot plate???

-- jamie (jamie@nowhere.com), August 31, 2001

Answers

Maybe some electrician who really knows will answer, but I would try a simple experiment. Use a pot of cold tap water and place on the 220 range top. Turn the burner to high. Go outside to your electric meter and using a watch with second hand, count the number of revolutions of the wheel in five minutes. Do this several times to collect a fair sampling.

Next, turn off the range and refill the pot with cold water again and repeat experiment with the hot plate. The wheel in your electric meter turns faster the more power you are using. It might help to turn off as many things in the house as possible, but what you are looking for is to see which causes more revolutions per minute: range or hot plate. The pot of water creates a "load" on the appliance.

-- Skip in Western WA (sundaycreek@gnrac.net), September 01, 2001.


You'll also want to see how long it takes said water to boil, because if the stove uses more, but boils faster, it's a wash, or maybe even a win, to go with the higher-input appliance.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), September 01, 2001.

220 is a measure of voltage, 1000 watts is a measure of power (voltage x current). Without knowing the current draw for the stove for the particular task, its impossible to calculate costs. I suppose you could devise a meter reading experiment after using each and calculate costs based on KWH. Creating any of form of heat with electricity is usually expensive when compared to gas.

-- Yup (Yup@nospam.com), September 01, 2001.

Yup is right of course, we need current of the stove top to make a definite answer.

Electric heating devices are interesting in that they are just about the only 100% efficient appliance in the home. If you put 1000 watts in you get 1000 watts of heat out, you might also get cooked food, light or a TV picture but in any case there is 1000 watts released into the room, so whatever you put into an electrical appliance assists your heating system in winter or in summer loads the air conditioner. So my point is, if you use electric heating then you can afford to be generous with the cooking and if you use gas (or whatever) heating costs will also be reduced although not as much as the electricity costs.

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), September 01, 2001.


If you can figure out the amperage of your stove top take the amperage and multiply it by 220 and this will be your wattage of the stove top. Compare the wattage against your Hot plate wattage.

-- r.h. in okla. (rhays@sstelco.com), September 01, 2001.


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