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Look on the dryers nameplate for the actual wattage. Lets assume that it is 7200 watts. You pay for electricity by the killowatt/hour. So you are using 7200 of 7.2 Kw/Hr. Look on your power bill and it should tell you how much they are charging you per Kw/Hr. It could be .04 to .15 (who knows). Mine is .06 cents per Kw/Hr. Calculate .06 x 7.2 = .432 cents/hour
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Except that the heater is only running for part of the time, so in reality this depends on what you set the temperature to. 50% duty cycle is probably a good estimate, in which case it will be about half of the above.
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∙ 11y agoA electric or a gas dryer, or one in a laundromat?
To run a (our) gas dryer...
One kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity in Los Angeles was $0.193 in September, 2012. It is rated at 6 amps and 22000 btu. As it's probably over-rated, and I'm assuming you want what it costs on high speed dry, I'm going to assume it uses 5 amps. At 120 volts 5 amps is 600 watt. At $.193/kWh that is $0.1158, or to the closest penny, 12 cents.
The dryer is rated for 22000 BTUs, but we're billed in Therms. As one Therm is 100,000 BTU, that means the dryer uses (can use?) .22 Therms/h. At $1.027/therm that is about $0.23.
$0.23 + $0.12 = $0.35 to run the dryer for an hour (at the high speed, high temp setting).
To run an electric dryer? I found a similar 7 cubic foot capacity one on line, it uses 220v at 30A which translates to 6600 Watts. At $.193/kWh that is $1.27 to run for an hour. Of course, just because it's rated at 30A, it doesn't mean it uses that much.
In a laundromat? The closest one to us costs three quarters for 20 minutes, which would be $2.25 per hour.
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∙ 11y agoTo answer this question a voltage and amperage must be stated to establish the wattage of the microwave oven. If the nameplate states the wattage then this data can be used. To establish a cost to operate, the cost from the utility company in kW/hr must also be stated. This cost can be found on your utility bill.
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∙ 14y agoDepends on how many watts it is drawing. Example: 1500 watts = 1.5KW. Run for 1 hr = 1.5KWhr. If you pay 10cents for KWhr then the cost is 1.5 x 10cents = 15 cents.
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∙ 12y ago1.5 Kilowatt hours. This is about 20 cents worth of electricity.
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