Does my hairdryer use a lot of electricity??

Question

I don't know how many watts etc, it's just a bog standard hairdryer, but parents keep saying how much electricity it uses and that it's one of the most expensive things to run in the house. Does anyone know if this is true or how I can find out? Ive googled it, but I cant find hairdryer on any lists. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Take one with batteries and better, don't use it: it burns your hair and dries it!

Answer 2

to calculate the exact you must know the wattage and your electrical cost per killowatt hour. ours is a 100  watt and our cost per kwh is 10 cents. using it for one hour requires 100 watt hours. divide by 1000 k gives 0.10 kwh. at 10 cents per kwh the cost is 1 cent. other appliances are much more costly to operate. the higher the wattage the higher the cost.

Answer 3

a hairdryer uses alot of energy...have you ever noticed how the other appliances/lights in the house dim or grow quieter whenver you use a hairdryer? i prefer air-drying my hair: hairdryers are bad for your hair because the heat dries you hair out. same with curlers, straighteners, etc.

Answer 4

Toss them a penny and tell them to keep the change.

Unless you run the hairdryer for hours, you wouldn't notice any difference in the electric bill.

Answer 5

A typical hair dryer will use over a thousand watts at high setting and 500 to 700 at the low heat setting and by using the air only setting you use about 30 watts.

I use mine for starting fires!

Answer 6

Well this seemed like a fun little math problem, my wife's hair-dryer is a 1750 watt model, not unusually high, let's see, for us electric costs are 12.5 cents a kwh, so that means this would be 12.5c * 1.75kwh = 21.875c, so if you ran it for an hour, it would be about 22 cents, BUT, multiply that by 30, and it's 6.5625, or roughly a $6.57 cost a month if you run it every day for an hour (I'm hoping you're not running it for an hour everyday for the sake of your hearing.)

Answer 7

A/C and heating systems, oven, washer/dryers, and LCD TV are a big pull on electricity. Ask them if their washer/dryer pair is energy efficient?

They don't use much, but they sound like they do.

Answer 8

Hair dryers are typically 1,000 watts (1 kilowatt) and if you run it for one hour continuously it uses 1 kilowatt-hour of energy, which at the going rate today costs:

7 cents.

In contrast a 50 watt light bulb run 24 hours is

50 x 24 = 1.2 kilowatt hours, which is getting close to 8 cents.

I think your parents need to lighten up a bit and look for real wastes like letting the oven warm up for 30 minutes then cool off for one hour.  You might try asking them if you can hang your own laundry up to drip dry to help pay for the hair dryer.

Answer 9

No your hairdryer does not use alot of electricity. There are other electrical appliances that use more. Your dryer, washer, A/C and oven use considerably more. At a campground we worked at we had 15 and 30 amp sites and your dryer I believe ranked a total of 7 or less amps so your using bugger all.

Answer 10

STOP USING IT.