HvacTech2 wrote:

...you pay on the power used not the amperage.

No. You pay on the energy used. Power is just a number,
the rate of energy transferred. Energy (power times time)
is the stuff we pay for.

Nick

It's a snap to save energy in this country. As soon as more people
become involved in the basic math of heat transfer and get a gut-level,
as well as intellectual, grasp on how a house works, solution after
solution will appear.
Tom Smith, 1980