block heater

[darkspork]

I'm not exactly sure but I know when I was living in an apartment it was pretty cheap. My electric bill was less than $20/month in the winter (gas heat) and I always plugged the Ranger in before I went to bed whenever it was 10 degrees or colder. Granted, I only was at home half the month, so maybe it would have been closer to $40/month if I was working a regular job at the time.

 

[strvger]

most of the ones i'm familiar with are under 100 watts. doesn't take a lot of power or heat to keep your antifreeze liquid. -13 here now and both my trucks are plugged in. i usually wait till it's below 0 before i plug them in.

 

[satan]

I installed the Jegs 555-51120 into my 4.0; 1500 Watts of block-warming-goodness.

Hasn't been cool enough here to even plug it in yet, but on my older inline 6-cyl 2-hours prior to driving gave good results --> so 3KWH/day (about 35-cents/day a maximum of $10.50/month for me up here) I would imagine that the 4.0 would be similar heating needs (though the "V" configuration may lead to a little lop-sided heating...)

The Feds keep a power-cost chart (if you all don't keep your electric bill ( http://www.eia.doe.gov/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html ) - prices are shown in cents per kilowatt hour...

You can use a high-current timer (like a heavy-duty christmas light timer) to manage run timing, so you're not running-up too high of a bill or heating unecessarily