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Thread: ZERO POWERED HARVESTERS
Cafa wrote:
Defnitely a beautiful thing.
35 down, all self-powered atm. The savings over 2 months will pay for 2 mill a deed.
Fivo Asia
Hmm..that doesn't sound right, it's the same thing as saying your power costs are 1 million creds per month per heavy which is about 20 times the actual cost, depending on the PE of the power you use and the price you pay. Heavies use 75 units of power per hour or 1800 units every 24 hours. If you buy 750 PE power at 1.5 cpu, then your cost for power is 1 cpu, since 750 PE power yields 50% more power than 500 PE power (i.e. if you have a 100k stack of 750 PE radio and a haverster with no power, you can add 150k power units). Therefore at 2 mil per deed, it will take 1,111 days or just over 3 years to break even at that price. Even paying 100k per power kit, it will take over 55 days just to break even based on the 750 PE @ 1.5 cpu example.
Frankly I'm amazed at the prices people are paying for these things since it's pretty easy to figure out what your energy costs are. Of course this calculation assumes 100% usage of the harvester, otherwise it will take longer to break even if you move your harvesters as non-usage will obviously reduce your energy cost.