Indeed Gnarlie you are correct. That's why I mentioned the timer so it only
ran a couple hours in the morning. After all who would leave 5 or 6 light
bulbs on all night.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Gnarlodious [mailto:gnarlodious@mac.com]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:53 PM
To: Matt Heydon; Vanagon
Subject: Re: engine block heaters? & energy use

Entity Matt Heydon spoke thus:

> Keep in mind
> that the heater element draws a lot of current which will cause elec. bill
> to go up. I plug mine into a $4 timer set to come on 2 hours before I
leave for work in the a.m.
What are you talking about? The heater uses 380 watts. If you run the heater
for 1 hour every cold morning you are using 11.4 KWh per 30 day month.
Let's say power is 10 cents per KWh, that's $ 1.14 per month to crank a warm
engine.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

--Gnarlie