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Old 05-10-2010, 09:28 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR View Post
I'm confused. Why did you ask the question? It's not worth the effort to flip a switch? Is the switch on the roof or something? With an electric wh not used all week you could save you $100 over a year. If still don't want to put the effort into flipping a switch then you could put a timer for around $30-40 and pay for that in one year.
Easy there Sik. My point is that if the savings between on or off is only 24 cents on an 80 gallon electric unit over the 8.5 day example given then my 40 gallon unit is probably something less than that. For the 20 or so weeks that I would consider turning it off, I would save a total of $4.80 for the year. THAT is why I asked the question.

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