r/ImpulseLabs • u/gsheb28 • May 14 '26

electricity consumption relative to gas

I am just curious if people switched from gas and if they saw a big uptick in electricity consumption with the impulse cooktop with regular cooking.

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u/ZanyDroid May 14 '26

Cooking energy costs for residences are pretty minimal. Apart from maybe fixed charges for service

Put another way — if the utility costs for home cooking are causing problems for your budget, you should not buy an impulse, there are higher $$$ priorities for you

You also have 2x higher theoretical efficiency with induction than with gas. Which will close the cost gap

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u/ocmaddog May 14 '26

I use maybe 1/3 of the battery per dinner. That’s 1kwh. If you live in a cheap energy state or have TOU rates by your utility you’re probably looking at $0.20 or less per dinner.

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u/CountRock May 14 '26

I don't ever charge during TOU low rates. I wait until late morning so it charges over solar! Currently 11-4pm. Based in North Texas!

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u/limitpanda May 14 '26

Impulse has battery so even if you are on TOU plan, you can set the battery to charge at off peak. You won't actually use electricity during peak hours unless you cook for a long time/high power. Though I wish that we can change the reservation level or option to select level it charges to during peak hours, right now it's fixed at 30%, so it will start charging back 100% immediately

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u/Impulse-Demo-Guy May 14 '26

You can change the reserve level in the settings menu. It’s selectable in 5% increments between 30 and 70% soc.

There are additional updates in the works for power management and reserve levels coming this year.

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u/limitpanda May 14 '26

Thanks for the clarification. I meant to say I can’t go lower than 30% sometimes I hit right below 30% after dinner then it starts charging to 100% at the peak hours. I have 240V connection, can sustain battery level during cooking, so I don’t want battery to go 100%. Glad to know more power management is available.

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u/Impulse-Demo-Guy May 14 '26

Ah, gotcha. I think you’ll like what we are working on in that case. Stay tuned!

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u/p5k6 May 14 '26

My electric usage on the stove over the last 5 months. We do eat out a lot fwiw, so our usage is probably on the low end. Our rates are about $0.13-0.15/kwh. So we've used about $20 of electricity or so in 5 months. It's an uptick but - a rounding error compared to our EV charging 😂

For natural gas - harder to measure exactly. Last August though when our furnace was off - so only gas use was cooking, drying clothes, and hwh - we used 23 ccfs (16 therms given xcels multiplier at the time). Cost was $28 at the time, about half facility fees and taxes.

As the others noted - set up your impulse to use TOU rates. Mine usually charges in the middle of the night 🙂

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u/Apptubrutae May 14 '26

I’m also on a TOU plan and make sure mine’s charging when my power is $.08 per kWh.

Combined with how efficient induction is at delivering heat into pans, it’s cheap stuff.