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Re: gas costs for burners
Posted By: SVP Neon Equipment In Response To: gas costs for burners (terlsworld)
Date: Sunday, 25 April 2010, at 12:37 a.m.
> I was wondering what you pay for your gas
> bill and how many hours you bend on average
> per day. Example lets say before you set up
> your burners your gas bill would run about
> 100 dollars and after setting up your
> burners it went to 200 dollars. So if you
> bend for 2 hours per day on average or 60
> hours per month we could conclude that it
> costs you about $1.66 per hour. Of course
> this would fluctuate depending on what
> burners you were running ribbon verses
> cannon fire ect. And I know that each region
> has different costs for natural gas But I
> was just trying to get some sort of notion
> of how much it costs people to run thier
> fires. If you could respond with how much of
> your gas bill you think is from running your
> burners and about how many hours on average
> you bend per day I would be interested in
> hearing your feedback. Thanks for your
> response and I hope you all don't consider
> this a stupid question.Not a stupid question at all. If your gas bill has doubled to anywhere close to the numbers you gave, you have a problem (gas leak, inaccurate meter reading, etc.) If you look in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th edition of “Neon Techniques & Handling” there is a chart that gives the average gas consumption of the various burners. From that you can estimate what your hourly consumption is and multiply it by your current rate. Keep in mind that utilities rates in many areas have gone WAY up in the past year or two, so it may be possible that your gas bill has seemed to almost doubled depending on usage.
Also, if your utility company has recently gone to the “radio signal” meter reading outputs (the meter reader only has to be in close proximity to get the reading via remote), this system has been known to transmit false readings sometimes. You can keep track of the meter readings yourself and compare them to what your bill shows to determine if there is a problem with the accuracy of the readings. (Yeah, it’s the old ‘pass the buck and let the consumer figure out if there is a problem or not’).
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