Decreasing "Carbon Footprint"

[five.five-six]

well I can tell you that all my hardware decisions are HEAVELY weighted with efficiency in mind. the way I look at it, every watt a pump is rated for, cost 3 watts example:

if you use a Koralia 3 850 gph 10 watts $39.99, it will cost the 10 watts plus a 50% efficient chiller will be a cost of 20 watts to remove the heat for a total of 30 watts,

if you use a eheim 1262 900 gph 80W your cost will be 2400 watts


this is huge as circulation pumps run 24 X 7

 

[puter]

Posts that answer Jerry's original question of "how to (cheaply) reduce power consumption in reef tanks" are entirely appropriate here and are applicable to all of us who have to pay utility bills each month. Posts that address whether he should bother to do so or what the environmental impact of his doing so may or may not be aren't appropriate here. Those types of posts might be ok in the Lounge unless they become political in nature at which point they would be in violation of the RC user agreement. FWIW.

Mark

 

[MarkKlier]

five.five-six thanks. i running a wave maker that I love, need to check how much energy it uses. My wife tells me I should look mostly at the at the amps vrs volts or watts,can't remember why (wasnt listening)
MK

 

[five.five-six]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9739274#post9739274 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by puter
Posts that answer Jerry's original question of "how to (cheaply) reduce power consumption in reef tanks" are entirely appropriate here and are applicable to all of us who have to pay utility bills each month. Posts that address whether he should bother to do so or what the environmental impact of his doing so may or may not be aren't appropriate here. Those types of posts might be ok in the Lounge unless they become political in nature at which point they would be in violation of the RC user agreement. FWIW.

Mark

I risk this seeming like a flame... but here goes. if you look at the top of the page the title of the thread is: Decreasing "Carbon Footprint" and it sort of begs for debate.

Yes our electric bills are high. hopefully we are always at 115 volts so with P=IxE the amp/watt ratio is constant. so mind your amps and watts. another way to save is to use an external return pump to keep the heat out of your tank and icecap ballasts are far more efficient than the old PCB laden magnetic ballasts.


Also if you have air conditioning the powerhead conversion can be doubled as your a/c will run more to cool th hot air from your chiller @ about 50% efficiency. your Koralia will be about 60 watts and the ehime will run around 4800 watts

Another tick I use is no lid on my hood, less heat in the water -> less chiller -> less air conditioner -> less carbon footprint


you can save a lot with minor design changes

KEEP HEAT OUT OF YOUR TANK