Is 200 watts a lot of power to be using?

Question

if you want to know its a home ice maker

Answer 1

It will run your electric bill up, and in a hurry.  It would be cheaper to buy a bag of ice at the grocery store and keep it in your freezer.

Answer 2

Good job wind

Answer 3

It's about the same as 3 typical light bulbs.

Answer 4

Compared to launching the space shuttle absolutely not.  Compared to operating your wrist watch it's huge! All things are relative.

Realistically, if your talking about the ice maker in your freezer, it only draws power when it dumps ice.  ( 60 seconds once every two hours, 365 day = 14.59KWH/Yr or $1.46/ Yr @ $0.10/KWH) You would loose a lot more energy in dumped cold air if you manually filled and replace ice trays.

Answer 5

Typically ice makers and such are an on demand thing, in otherwords the can sense when something is frozen or not and turn themselves off when the job is done.

Best thing is to get a product like the Kill a Watt power tester and see if it truly is running all the time, I doubt it does.

Answer 6

That sounds about right.  The tricky thing is ice makers are an "on demand" appliance.  Obviously your TV is sucking up more wattage when on than off.

A neat analogy I hard about on demand appliances is that tracking there power usage is like assessing your hourly water usage when you have all the sprinklers on -- not an accurate methodology.

Answer 7

a 200 watt ice maker running for 24 hours uses 4800 watts. divide by 1000 and you have used 4.8 kw[ kilowatt hours]. look at your electric bill and it will show your cost for one kwh. if it is 10 cents, multiply 4.8 times ten cents and you have spent 48 cents to run the icemaker for 24 hors.

Answer 8

It is a decent amount of power to be using if it is using that amount constantly, but it probably isn't. In contrast, a small lamp will usually use 60-100 watts and a microwave will use around 1000 watts.

Answer 9

do you turn on 2 or 3 lights at the same time?

using any power over a long time will cost eventually.

Answer 10

no its ok there are many bulbs of that power as well

Answer 11

Like Wind said, if you run it constantly, its going to cost you 48 cents per day... that is if you are paying 10cents a kilowatt hour.

New York residents like me average closer to 16, so we'd be paying 77 cents.

If the ice maker runs 5% of the time, you are talking about $1.15 per month or about $14 a year.