How much will my router cost me monthly ?

[MagicWolf]

Title says it all prety much... How much electricity it makes and how much will i have to pay at the end of the month ? My router is TP-LINK Archer C2 . ---- 12V / 1.5A

P.S. It stays ON 24/7 and i only shut it down when there are thunders etc.

 

[ahnilated]

haha, I doubt you would even notice it. They use such a small amount.

 

[Solandri]

Title says it all prety much... How much electricity it makes and how much will i have to pay at the end of the month ? My router is TP-LINK Archer C2 . ---- 12V / 1.5A

Volts * Amps = Watts. So (assuming your router was drawing max power) 12 V * 1.5 A = 18 Watts. In reality, it'll draw less most of the time. A router is basically a mini computer (usually running Linux), and only runs its CPU at 100% when its heavily loaded (lots of connections, doing encryption, etc). If you want to measure exactly how much power your devices are using, buy something called a Kill-A-Watt.

If you pay the U.S. average of 11.5 cents/kWh for electricity, by a coincidence this works out to almost exactly $1 per Watt if a device is left on 24/7 for a year. So a 18 Watt router will cost you about $18 of electricity in a year if left on the entire time.

Scale the cost up or down based on the ratio of how much your electricity actually costs vs 11.5 cents/kWh. (Or if you want the math, $0.115/kWh * 8766 hours/year = $1008/kW per year = $1.008 per Watt-year. Insert your electricity price in place of $0.115/kWh.)