Posted on 12/05/2022 1:44:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Whether you’re wrapping your Christmas tree in one strand of lights or adorning your home with a Griswold-like display, the type of lights you select can have a big impact on your electric bill.
A strand of 300 white mini LED lights on the typical green wire is 21 watts, while the same style with incandescent bulbs is 72 watts. Using the formula above with the national average of 16 cents per kilowatt-hour and a display season of six hours a day for a month, using a strand of mini LED lights will cost you about 60 cents. A strand with the same amount of incandescent bulbs will cost about $2.07.
If you’re looking at a strand of 100-light C9 LED lights at 4.8 watts, it will cost you about 14 cents, while a 25-light strand of C9 incandescent lights at 175 watts costs about $5.04. For the 25-light LED C7 strand at 21 watts, your cost is about 60 cents, while the incandescents at 125 watts will cost about $3.60.
Of course the total cost is dependent on the local cost of electricity. In Idaho, which had the lowest average price of electricity in September at about 10 cents, the costs above would range between 9 cents and $3.15. In Hawaii, with the highest average price of nearly 46 cents, costs would range between 39 cents and $14.18.
The busybodies are hard at work this Christmas season stealing all the joy out of it. Addy implies the nation would be far better off and happier if nobody put up lights and saved $5.
Does anybody care if your Christmas lights will cost you $3 to $15 to run for the entire Christmas season?
Addy Bink would be a happier person if the Grinch stole her lights and saved her that $5.
My electric bill will double- and i don’t care.
I don’t do the Clark Griswold thing, but i’m close, and everyone loves it
Seriously? The inflation on a single hamburger is more than that.
About $5 . Just LED lights on a tree that are on for 5 hours or so a day.
We put the lights up around the house because of that thing called “Christmas spirit”, which the left doesn’t have.
Some displays are more extravagant than others. People have the right to put the lights up and don’t mind the slight extra expense. Grinches have the right to not put them up.
Not nearly enough. Don’t have anywheres enough lights!
WHAT holiday lights????
LEDs don’t draw much at all. It’s the incandescents that suck the juice.
But I see the LEDs as kinda cold......where the incandescents are warmer and more astetically pleasing to the eye.
But I do neither...3 projection light units, a couple of extension cords and a timer and I call it good.
Not everybody lives I the middle of nowhere my man. LoL!
“People have the right to put the lights up and don’t mind the slight extra expense. Grinches have the right to not put them up.”
You clearly don’t listen to your local Holiday Commissar, Comrade. Your local Central Committee will decide if you put up lights, the number of lights you should put up, and the color of those lights. Do not disagree with the Central Committee!
What do you think we are? The old United States of America?
We are using Amish Christmas lights this year in honor of FJHB Biden and his merry band of thieves.
It ain't the Christmas lights adding to the bill. It's Joseph Robinette Stalin Biden!
I don’t care. Christmas tree lights makes the wife’s clothes fall off.
LOLOL...you’re supposed to hang them on the bushes and trees out front, not on your wife.
Made me laugh!
However much a little more than 5,000 incandescent mini-bulbs, burning 5 hours a night, adds to it.
This is liberalism at its finest. No matter how small, they hate anything that gives us enjoyment and bitch about it. We’re putting up more lights and blowups right now.
“This is liberalism at its finest. No matter how small, they hate anything that gives us enjoyment and bitch about it. “
Yes, they sure know how to suck the joy out of everything, don’t they? Honestly, whoever gave a moment’s thought to the cost of power for Christmas lights?
They ran incessant advertising campaigns to browbeat millions into throwing away perfectly good, quality USA made appliances, in order to purchase “energy star” compliant appliances that in all too many instances are inferior in both function and durability. The alleged electrical “savings” are usually a rounding error at best, adding up to trivial sums and many people borrow money on credit/interest to buy them.
I’ve a nice set of the old school Norma C9 outdoor lights. They do draw more juice. So what? I’m the one paying the electric bill.
The miniatures, LED and similar are “colder” in more ways than one, visually they aren’t as nice as C7 and C9 bulbs. They are pretty.
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