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    Default Re: Electrical costs for my pool

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnT
    KWH is approximately (Amps X Volts divided by 1000) X Hours. At max current, your motor would use 12AX120V=1440W Dividing by 1000 gives 1.44KW X 24Hours= 34.56KWH per day, so at $0.083 per KWH, you are using $2.86 worth of electricity a day, or roughly $86 per month. Double that if that is a 220 motor.

    The plate current is max, and you probably aren't using that. The only way to know how much current you are using is to measure it.
    For the same HP motor operating at 230v, it will use half the amps as 115v so the total power is the same.
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