Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-16

losing money III case any consumer
should stop using lights or power or
should use it small fraction Of the
time only.
The rate per kilowatthour must be
adjusted in such way that it will
decrease in proportion to the amount
of electricity used and the length of
time the current is turned on and this
is done in the following way:
A rate is fixed for certain amount
of each individual connected load,
each consumer can use all the lights in
his house a certain number of hours
every month at a certain rate; this
means the whole load at in this case
40 hours, half of the load so hours, or
one-fourth of the load 100 hours etc,
he gets lower rate for hours use over
the first 40 hours, and still lower rate
for hours use over the first 100 hours
We will take an example and show
that this rate is of fully as much bene-
fit to the small consumer as to the
large consumer, and we will again in
order to make it better understood take
an extreme case.
Surprising small cottage has con-
nected load of three lights, say three
sixty watt lamps, of this, two lamps
are liable to be burning in the winter
time five hours every days the three
lamps do not all burn at once, and this
the railroad commission has taken into
consideration when they order us to
figure as connected load not the total
connected load, but 6Oc or approximate
ly two-thirds of the total connected
load, twO-thirds of the total connected
load of three lamps is two lamps. Now
if a customer uses his two lamps five
hours every day, the total hours used
during the whole month is $50 hours,
he pays according to the rate which
we were offering at the mass meeting,
Sc for the first 40 hours use, Sc for the
next 60 hours used, and in this case he
pays Sc for the last so hours use of his
two lamps or &c for One-third OF the
total amount of his consumption, and
in case this consumer should want to
use an electric flat iron, he will pay
for the use of it at the rate OF &c per
kilOwatthour, and as most fiat irons
consume 500 watts or u kilOwatt, it
will cost him one and One-half cents
an hour for the use of his fiat iron. 1t
is necessary to mention here that a
fiat iron does not increase the con-
nected load, an appliance load of less
than one kilowatt is not taken into con-
sideration in figuring connected load.
In order to apply the rate in the
above example we would proceed as
follows:
The total connected load is 800 watt
lamps or $50 watts, and we only figure
with GO per cent of the total connected
load this would be 10S watt. This
load used 40 hours would be equal to
40 times los or 1920 watthOurs or 4.32
of this load would be equal to $3.50
watts or GAS kilOwatthOurs. Accord
ing to our figures above the consumer
used his load $50 hours, this leaves
15O-100 or SO hours use for the last
step in the rate. 80 hours use of 10S
watts equal 10S times 80 or $500 watts
or "a kilowatthours.
We will assume that this consumer
uses az electric fiat iron two hours a
week or s hours a month, as stated be-
fore most fiat irons consume 800 watts
an hour or - kilowatt. y kilowatt
used s hours will register on the meter
as kilOwatthours. Let us add up
from our figures what the meter should
read at the end of the month:
First 40 hours use of the lighting
load kilowatthours.
Next 60 hours use of the lighting
load kilowatthOurs.
Excess of 100 hours use Of the light
ing load 5 kilOwatthOurS.
Flat iron used hours, 4 kilowatt-
hours.
Total, 10 kilOwatthOurs.
And the bill would look as follows:
kilowatthours M 9c-....$ SO
kilOwatthOurs 0Sc.--.-.-......-..-... AS
8 kilOwatthOurs % 3c.... 81
10 kilOwatthours II
The bill figured at the present rate
would look as follows:
kilOwatthours "a 10c..-......-...$ 40
6 kilOwatthours % Sc.........-....... 81
8 kiIOwatthours a. 6c...-. "a
$1.45
This shows difference of 33c be-
tween the old and the proposed rate,
and should prove without any argu-
ment that the rate is made in such a
way that the small consumer gets fully
as much benefit from it as the larger
consumer.
LADYSMITH LIGHTING co.
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FAIRVIEW
Special Correspondence
Lester PrOsser, of Greenwood, visit
ed part of this week at the Gordon