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How is your power bill?

Recently I moved my equipment to our vacation home south of the border. On average the power bill ran about $12 per month. After setting up the three Krell Amps (fpb 350s and a KSA 150) to drive the Maggie 20.1s, etc. and, in addition to listening to music, starting watching nightly action movies through the system as well. The new power bill was almost $70.00!!

Thoughts? Your experience with this?
puerto
puerto OP
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Lloydc: HA! Yes, I am grateful that it is only $70 but nonetheless that is a sharp increase and I wanted to know if the real reason was my gorging on music and movies and whether or not I was alone in this increased cost of living! I sorta new the answer already! The current political climate in the U.S. is one of the big reasons that we are making the move!! I understand your sentiment.
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jsd52756
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My Krell FPB300cx has the following listed in the owners manual as power consumption;
Stand by; 60w
Idle; 175w
Hauling butt; 1700w

The KCT manual doesn't list the power consumption. It does run very warm at idle so I reckon it sucks some juice.
A small price to pay for the tunes it produces.
-John
eddaytona
216 posts
 
"The current political climate in the U.S. is one of the big reasons that we are making the move!!"

Huh? You don't mean increased DEA inforcement on the US side I assume? LOL

My friends just got highjacked and robbed on the way to Rosarito Beach in Mexico. Headless bodies are turning up all over Baja and the State Dept is telling kids to go elsewhere for spring break.

Enjoy.
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mapman
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At the risk of sounding "smug", Class D amps are the equivalent of hybrid or even electric cars in terms of energy consumption.

Similarly spec'ed and much larger Class A amps are like Hummers!
eldartford
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Obama will probably institute a heavy tax on tube amps, and completely outlaw Class A.
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