People are a lot more energy conscious than in years gone by.
It would be nice if the information was correct as stated so that
some friends could make proper decisions but:
From the All Pages WIKI under the Energy Savings category:
…Vera uses only $1.50 of electricity a month and does the same thing, a fraction of that used by even the most power-efficient laptops.
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From the Demo Video with Jennifer, she states that Vera only costs 1 dollar to run for a whole year.
[quote=“michaelk, post:3, topic:165522”]I think someone posted somewhere it runs on 8 watts. (anyone have a source or care to correct me?)
so take the 8 watts and convert to kwh for a day/week/month/year as you please and multiple by the cost of electricity per kwh for your area.[/quote]
No, I’m sure the 8W number is the one I’ve heard. So for 24/365, that’s 70KWH. Here in Forest Grove OR, that works out to be $3.38/year. But our juice is dirt cheap.
[quote=“rlmalisz, post:4, topic:165522”][quote=“michaelk, post:3, topic:165522”]I think someone posted somewhere it runs on 8 watts. (anyone have a source or care to correct me?)
so take the 8 watts and convert to kwh for a day/week/month/year as you please and multiple by the cost of electricity per kwh for your area.[/quote]
No, I’m sure the 8W number is the one I’ve heard. So for 24/365, that’s 70KWH. Here in Forest Grove OR, that works out to be $3.38/year. But our juice is dirt cheap.
–Richard[/quote]
must be nice to have all that hydro power out there. ;D
here in NJ it would work out to be 2-3 times that.
Still no big deal- one of my cheaper gadgets!- and vera can probably pay for itself by shutting off a few light fixtures hear or there or by allowing a thermostat to be dialed back remotely.
[quote=“michaelk, post:6, topic:165522”][quote=“rlmalisz, post:4, topic:165522”][quote=“michaelk, post:3, topic:165522”]I think someone posted somewhere it runs on 8 watts. (anyone have a source or care to correct me?)
so take the 8 watts and convert to kwh for a day/week/month/year as you please and multiple by the cost of electricity per kwh for your area.[/quote]
No, I’m sure the 8W number is the one I’ve heard. So for 24/365, that’s 70KWH. Here in Forest Grove OR, that works out to be $3.38/year. But our juice is dirt cheap.
–Richard[/quote]
must be nice to have all that hydro power out there. ;D
here in NJ it would work out to be 2-3 times that.
Still no big deal- one of my cheaper gadgets!- and vera can probably pay for itself by shutting off a few light fixtures hear or there or by allowing a thermostat to be dialed back remotely.[/quote]
In a way, the cheap power makes it a lot harder to justify the outlay for the Vera and even more so for the Z-wave devices. But we were using X10 for years, and the new house has proven itself to be X10-proof. I could hardly get a wiggle out of the Elk X10 signal meter on some outlets when the CM11A was plugged into the same fixture. We were pretty discouraged by the controller options for Z-wave and Zigbee–and Linda swore she’d never deal with Homeseer again. We’re software engineers, and Vera looked like it was right up our alley. So far, we’re very happy, but aren’t yet doing anything even vaguely ambitious. But it’s really nice to know that turning on the LCD TV won’t make the lighting controls cease to function. With X10, it was always a real question!
;D