On 17 Jan 2005 at 12:42, Evan Dallas wrote: > Regarding electricity consumption: In my 500 watt Harvest Maid > dehydrator, apricots are supposed to take about 14 hours to dehydrate. I wonder if it really runs at 500w much of the time. I suspect that it consumes somewhat less on average - I may be wrong, but I expect that the heater doesn't stay on all the time. Only meat products are dried at max, so even if the heater is on all the time, for fruits and such it will likely be on a a lower level. So the electricity cost estimate of under a dollar (say) is reasonable. However, it obviously is beneficial to dry as much as possible in a single load. My unit can take quite a few trays - much more than I've ever used at one time. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 17 2005 - 15:22:19 PST
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