In a conversion, it may cost you a little less if you were to use an old cga/vga monitor running in Energy Star mode.

I’m also pretty sure that the newer plasmas don’t use as much juice as the old tube monitors (although I can’t stand the idea of playing 8 bit games on a plasma and those things just look WRONG in a cab).

And last — many T.V.’s & monitors very greatly in energy consumption even though they are the same dimensions and look almost identical. The details on the box are always way off. One of those electricity meters may end up saving you a ton of money in the long run.

Thanks for the great vid!

That sounds a little high. I should have broken down the formula a little better in the article. 0.09 kWh/hr represents the amount of killowatt-hours we found an arcade game pulls per hour. You want to multiply this by the amount that your electric company charges per kWh which in your case would be $0.16. Then take this number and multiply it by hours (in your case 2) and days (30 days in a month). This will give you the approximate usage cost of one machine. So, lets show that in a formula…

0.09 kWh/hr * 0.16 per kWh = $0.0144 per hour
$0.0144 per hour * 2 hours a day * 30 days in a month = $0.864 per month

Then we can take this number and multiply it by the number of arcade games you have…

$0.864 per month * 16 arcade games = $13.82 per month

So your cost should run around $13.82 per month. Keep in mind that this is just an approximation as different arcade games can use more or less power. Hopefully that gives you a better idea of the formula. Thanks for the comments!