Running trains and electricity costs?

[TinGoat]

Geeze Rob,

If you are that worried about the price of electricity...

It's time to switch to live steam!

The Ontario Grits are getting a lot of heat from the "higher that expected" cost of rolling out the HST.

They may pull back on the Hydro hike as a result. [Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...]

Anyway. Hydro is calculated by Kilowatt-Hour.

Here's a link to figure out Kilowatt Hours:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2172446_calculat...nergy.html

So, you need to calculate how many watts your power pack uses. It may say, or you may have to calculate the watts from Volt / Amps.

For power usage, you have to look at the input side of your power pack: ~120VAC, ?amps, ?watts.

Not the output side: ~12+VDC....

Hope this helps...