When is it cheaper to rent a Sunlighter CR5 Tower Lights, #3 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $118 day rate would be $472, but the weekly rate caps it at $471.

When is it cheaper to rent a Sunlighter CR5 Tower Lights, #3 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,413 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Sunlighter CR5 Tower Lights, #3

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Lighting - Light Towers

Day: $118
Week: $471
28 days: $1,413

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $472. On the week rate it is $471.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,124. On the 28-day rate it is $1,413.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Sunlighter CR5 Tower Lights, #3, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$118	$118	—	day
2	$236	$236	—	day
3	$354	$354	—	day
4	$472	$471	you save $1	week
5	$590	$471	you save $119	week
6	$708	$471	you save $237	week
7	$826	$471	you save $355	week
8	$944	$589	you save $355	week
9	$1,062	$707	you save $355	week
10	$1,180	$825	you save $355	week
11	$1,298	$942	you save $356	week
12	$1,416	$942	you save $474	week
13	$1,534	$942	you save $592	week
14	$1,652	$942	you save $710	week
15	$1,770	$1,060	you save $710	week
16	$1,888	$1,178	you save $710	week
17	$2,006	$1,296	you save $710	week
18	$2,124	$1,413	you save $711	28-day
19	$2,242	$1,413	you save $829	28-day
20	$2,360	$1,413	you save $947	28-day
21	$2,478	$1,413	you save $1,065	28-day
22	$2,596	$1,413	you save $1,183	28-day
23	$2,714	$1,413	you save $1,301	28-day
24	$2,832	$1,413	you save $1,419	28-day
25	$2,950	$1,413	you save $1,537	28-day
26	$3,068	$1,413	you save $1,655	28-day
27	$3,186	$1,413	you save $1,773	28-day
28	$3,304	$1,413	you save $1,891	28-day
29	$3,422	$1,531	you save $1,891	day
30	$3,540	$1,649	you save $1,891	day
31	$3,658	$1,767	you save $1,891	day
32	$3,776	$1,884	you save $1,892	week
33	$3,894	$1,884	you save $2,010	week
34	$4,012	$1,884	you save $2,128	week
35	$4,130	$1,884	you save $2,246	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 18 days: $1,413
Rental protection (RPP): $211.95
Service fee: $141.30
Estimated total: $1,766.25

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.