Krell Power Consumption

300 WATTS at standby - is that the same as 3- 100W light bulbs being left on? Can't see where that would cost too much?

Maybe $0.15 per kW/hr is typical rate, which is 4.5 cents per hour, or $1.08 per day, which works out to about $33 / month and $400 / year.

Not everyone will be comfortable with that, but of course if you can afford the big Krells, you probably won't bat an eye.

Do the math.

.37kw X $.16/kwh X 24hr/day X 365 day/year = $518/year

In ten years that's $5180 at today prices, more as electricity costs go up.

Ken

Here in Southern California our power is very expensive.
While my first 280kwh or so is at about 0.15$/kwh, once I'm above that point, my rates go in 2 tiers. The highest marginal rate is about 0.20$kwh and I expect that to go UP since we now have rat-fink electronic meters that can be programmed for different rates at different times of day.

At 7.2kwh/ day, the Krell is wacky expensive to run. My current usage is about 450kwh/month to which the krell would add about 50%. That's even MORE than the 20 year old 'fridge I just junked out in favor of a unit rated at about 450kwh/year.

I use slightly different numbers to get to agreement with Ken.

Krells run hot and use lots of power . Levinson also did but they fixed that a few generations ago .