Humidifiers are used to increase the humidity in a confined space. They can be used to humidify living rooms and ventilators can be used to treat dryness. A typical household humidifier consumes a power of 25 watts. The energy usage of humidifiers can be calculated below:
Enter the wattage, hours of usage and cost per kWh. The energy usage calculator for humidifiers gives you the total energy consumed by them.
Energy usage of humidifiers
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Terms and definitions:
Wattage:
Power usage of the device in watts as mentioned on its label.
Cost per unit:
The average cost per unit charged by the electric utility. Every country has different tariff rates. Visit: Global Electricity prices for details if you don’t know how much the utility company charges you per unit or kWH.
Units per day:
The number of units of electricity consumed by the load every day considering the entered operation hours.
Hours of usage:
The number of hours the load is used per day.
The electricity usage depends on the wattage and the number of hours of usage. The utility company charges you for the total kilowatt-hour of energy you have consumed. Kilowatt-hour is the product of the power consumption of the load and the number of hours of usage.
Power consumption of humidifiers
There are several types of humidifiers, viz: central humidifiers, evaporators, impeller humidifiers, steam vaporizers, and ultrasonic humidifiers. A typical humidifier consumes 25 watts of power.
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