hydro cost of a 5 speaker surround system

[discount_yammie]

I have just setup a 5 speaker home theatre system and am curious about how this will impact the utility bill. I am living in an apartment so this may have a bigger affect on a hydro bill than someone living in a house.

The speakers are two fronts, two rears, one centre channel.
They have 120Watts per channel

The receiver I have is a peculiar discount buy I got off the Future Shop website. It is a Yamaha HTR-6025. I cannot find information on this receiver anywhere but can only assume it is an HTR-6030 renamed to get around other box stores from applying their 'best price guarantee policy'.

The specs are:Minimum RMS output power at 100W per channel (1kHz, 0.9% THD, 8ohms) note: also able to power 6ohm speakers with a change in the settings.

Does anyone know how to calculate this, OR has anyone noticed a difference on their hydro bill after an install?
Also, am i only using 100watts per channel at max. volume?

 

[highfihoney]

First off hello Secondly the speakers have very little to do with power consumption.

To figure out power consumption costs all you need is your last electric bill,the manual to the receiver & a calculator,all the information you need is within your manual & electric bill,look in the manual for max wattage consumption,then take that figure & X's it with the per hour wattage rate the electric company charges you,the resulting figure will tell you how much it costs per hour to run your system.

If i were you i wouldnt give it a 2nd thought,running a standard home theater system such as yours will add very little to your power bill,i cant see where if you end up running the system for 4 hours a day 7 days a week it will ever add more than $30 a month to your bill,and that is on the extreme high side.

On a side note,i run a massive system with amplifiers that use enough electricity to run several big arc welders,i cant remember it ever costing me more than $50 a month to run the system & that was durring an allmost constant cycle of 12 hour a day 7 day a week useage while i was recovering from a back injury.

 

[discount_yammie]

thanks for the calculation and the reassurance

My specs sheet says my max. power is 1kHz, 10%THD, 8ohms at 135watts. The back of the receiver says 240W though. Do I use 135watts for the calculation and does this mean that I will only get 135W divided by 5 channels when I run all of them.

Also is 135W used only at max. volume level

 

[Seth=L]

240 watts refers to the maximum power consumption of the receiver. All other specifications of the receiver are a moot point. It is unlikely that during normal use the receiver will be consuming 240 watts constantly or hardly ever. It will cost you less than $10 if you use it every day for at least 2 hours. On average assume you will be using 50-100 watts or so from the receiver. You have no need for concern. Don't forget the subwoofer though, it's probably a 60 watt subwoofer if it's internally powered, so it may use about 30 watts on average.

So basically, the whole system will on average use about that of two 60 watt light bulbs. The real power suckers are your furnace, air conditioning, electric stove, blow dryer, microwave, water heater, toaster, sweeper, dryer, and other devices that are designed to produce heat or cold or a large electric motor (like the sweeper has).

 

[mtrycrafts]

How many hours a day, 7 days a week will you operate it? Hopefully when not in operation, you will turn it all off?
What is your hydro rate now per kilowatt hour?

 

[Cozmo]

So basically, the whole system will on average use about that of two 60 watt light bulbs. The real power suckers are your furnace, air conditioning, electric stove, blow dryer, microwave, water heater, toaster, sweeper, dryer, and other devices that are designed to produce heat or cold or a large electric motor (like the sweeper has).

Don't mean to hijack this, but...

Seth, just a wild guess here but are you in Indiana?. I have never lived anywhere else that folks called a vacuum cleaner a sweeper.....

 

[highfihoney]

UHOH Seth,your being tracked

 

[Nomo]

On a relatively unrelated note:
The HTR6025 is apparently a HTR6030 minus the XM capability.

 

[loserwife]

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[highfihoney]

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