you how many watts does your system use?

[Mike]

My new 125 gallon Rimless system will be using

100 watt heater
Led lighting 210 watts
Return pump 60 watts
Skimmer 80 watts
Vortech x2 36 watts (total)
Profilux and dosers 30 watts
Denitrator 30 watts
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Daytime = 546 watts
Night = 336watts

[BK's Reef]

90 fowlr display, 40l sump(around 25g filled, with coral), 29 quarantine.
lights: 2 cf 23w ea. on display( worst lighting lol) 4x24w t5 on sump. 130w on qt when fish is in so not on all the time.

Pumps/powerheads. Rio 2100(25w), 2 sunsun 1300gph(24w together), k2 in sump(9w), penguin 660 in qt(? watts) hob filter penguin 200b (15w?)

2x 200w heaters(display) 1x 100w heater(qt)

845 all together.
600 on display, usually only have one heater plugged in so 400 mostly. night 258.
245 on qt w/o known wattage of the powerhead. when no fish probably around 25w(estimating the powerhead) because i turn off the heater til before i get a fish.
6w per gallon on all systems with everything on totalling 140g total approxamatly.

[Manoj's Reef]

Daytime: 370watts/90 gallons = 4.11 w/g
Night time: 170 watts/90 gallons = 1.89 w/g

[LunaReef]

50 gal cube- approx. 80 gal total volume

Return- 90 watts
Skimmer- 38 watts
Vortech- 9-28 watts
Heater- 250 watts
LED light- 17 watts

Total watts= 423
Total Watts per gal= 5.28

I also have a fridge and dosing pump set up but can't find watts used for either
so didn't include them

[boodare03]

Right now I don't have a system. We bought a house so I sold everything but am looking to get back in. With my last system I had my 120 display with 2 mp-40's, euro reef rs180, and 8 overdriven icecap t5 retros, and a mag 12 return pump and then I had the 200 gallon with a mag 36 return and cheap lights, and a 75 gallon with a 4 bulb t5 fixture with hob filters and 2 hydor korilia 4's. I don't know what it cost to run that but is wasn't cheap.

[Bluering]

Day: 561watts/65g = 8.6w/gal.
Night: 237watts/65g = 3.6w/gal.

[John]

120g display, 55g sump, 29g fuge, 10g frag tank, probably about ~190g total volume

day usage total: 510W nominal, 910W Peak with both heaters on (they don't run a lot), rounded up to the next 10.
return pump, other circulation pumps & skimmer: 310W
Heaters:400W (two 200W)
Lights: 200W (LED on both display & frag tank)

Night usage total: 300W nominal, 700W peak with heaters.

Day: 2.68W/gal without heaters, 4.78W/gal with heaters.
measured with kill-a-watt

Night: 1.5W/gal without heaters, 3.68W/gal with.

Information

edit: if I calculate my heaters as an average like John did, then I come up with ~120 watts of constant heater so...

daytime: 630W, 3.31 W/Gal
nighttime: 420W, 2.21 W/Gal

Awesome. Thanks for updating that.

[John]

Part 2 or this thread will involve find out how much we REALLY spend monthly on electricity...

So far I'm noticing smaller systems use MORE Watts Per Gallon... than a larger system does.

[Tropicorium]

Add them up... I want to know who has the most energy effeciant tanks for their overall size.

So...

Watts / total water volume = what I want to know.

If you want show how effecient the tank is at night and during the day.

On average, we run 40 400 Watt MH lights about 6 hours per day and about 65 4' 40W std flourescent bulbs abour 8 hours per day. 5 furnaces around 90,000 BTU run a lot in cooler weather. 3 1 HP blowers run continuously, and about 20 powerheads run all the time. The shop's electric bill is around $1600 per month in winter and a little less in the summer. The gas bill is around $1200 per month in cooler weather, little in warmer weather. Staggering?? Dick

[John]

What's the total water volume?

On average, we run 40 400 Watt MH lights about 6 hours per day and about 65 4' 40W std flourescent bulbs abour 8 hours per day. 5 furnaces around 90,000 BTU run a lot in cooler weather. 3 1 HP blowers run continuously, and about 20 powerheads run all the time. The shop's electric bill is around $1600 per month in winter and a little less in the summer. The gas bill is around $1200 per month in cooler weather, little in warmer weather. Staggering?? Dick