In Air Conditioners, what are EERs and how can I use it to calculate my electricity costs.

On non-Inverter ACs, I only need to use the power input (e.g. 800W) to calculate my energy cost for a 12-hour usage. (800*12/1000 = 9.6kW-hr)

On Inverter ACs though, I know they don't operate at 100% all the time, and most of the time the only information I get is their cooling capacity (e.g. 1hp ≈ 746W) and their EER (e.g. 12.2 kJ/hW).

How do I use these to get a rough estimate of the energy cost?

meekah ,
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A power meter is like 10 bucks. If you really want to know, that's probably the easiest way.

solrize ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio

Wikipedia is almost LMGTFY for this type of thing.

Brkdncr ,

Too many variables. Energy usage isn’t constrained to efficiency of the hvac.

What’s the energy consumption of your current unit? compare that equipment to a newer model to get an idea.

Eheran ,

Depends on your cooling requirements? Full blast it is the same as before. Anything less proportionally less.

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