found a site that tells me it 50p a hour for a standard light b for an hour?

kazzys51

hi there, does this sound right? does it cost 50p an hour to put a standard light bulb on? ive been working really hard to find out exactly what we are using so i can cut the costs of my gas and elec bill,so i found this site that tells you costs on washing machine,dishwasher light etc .
ive got 10 halogen lights in my kitchen which means it costs £5 quid:eek: an hour for elect? as opose to energy saving (1 bulb)costing 20p:eek:

does this sound right? if so im in the dark from now on!!:rotfl:

kazzys

gardner1

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Premier_2

If you have a 100W bulb on for 10 hours, it'll have used 1 kWh of electricity i.e. 1 unit.

Look at your electricity bill to see how much you are charged per kWh.

Magentasue

Which website?

If you have ten 50w halogen bulbs, that's 500watts, so about 12p or whatever you pay per kwh for a couple of hours. Not much but ... for us lighting's an issue. There are six of us in a three bedroom house so a lot of rooms in use a lot of the time. A lot of bulbs for a lot of hours. Every day. So it does make sense for us to have energy saving bulbs in rooms used a lot. In our last house, we put spotlights in, wouldn't do it now.

Cardew

kazzys51 wrote: »

hi there, does this sound right? does it cost 50p an hour to put a standard light bulb on? ive been working really hard to find out exactly what we are using so i can cut the costs of my gas and elec bill,so i found this site that tells you costs on washing machine,dishwasher light etc .
ive got 10 halogen lights in my kitchen which means it costs £5 quid:eek: an hour for elect? as opose to energy saving (1 bulb)costing 20p:eek:

does this sound right? if so im in the dark from now on!!:rotfl:

kazzys

I am assuming this is not a 'wind up'

A 100W bulb(about the biggest you can get) costs approx 1p(one penny) an hour.

A halogen light is normally 50W so 0.5p an hour. so 10 = 5p an hour.

An energy saving bulb(depending on size) will cost 1p(one penny) for between 7 hours and 14 hours use.

Sirbendy

if you find a bulb that costs 50p/hour to run...I wouldn't be in the same room when you power it up...:)

storminbalder

Does your lightbulb look anything like this?

kazzys51

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allan673

storminbalder - thats brilliant. put a smile on my face.

KimYeovil

kazzys51

:rotfl: hi guys ewes are funny :rotfl: cheered me up ive been wondering why its sooo bright im my house!!:cool:

im a dunder heed..... on the site(susit.net)on the lightning page i looked at the costs/day it reads 2.93p i was thinkin pounds:eek: turns out it pence phew i can take the shades off now eh?:rotfl: cheers for the picys!

k