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On 5/1/2013 9:57 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:03:20 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

On 5/1/2013 9:05 AM, True North wrote:
We bought a pkg of 4 small chandelier type LED bulbs a couple months ago at Costco.
The wife likes running numerous floor type lamps and I balked at the energy use of the standard bulbs.
I believe they are about 4 watts but throw the light of a 60.
Anyway, now we're both happy...she gets her light and I save on our expensive electricity.

Lowes had them on sale last year for $10. I bought about 40 of them. my
savings for a year were more than $300 in Elec. cost.

I doubt I spend $200 a year on lighting total. That is 1.5 megawatt
hours here. (4.1 KWH a day) That is a lot of lights if you turn them
off when you are not using them.
The occupancy sensors pretty much insure the only rooms with lights
are on are the rooms we are in.
I like it because wherever I go, the lights are on.
We don't really light our house as brightly as most people anyway. We
use task lighting when we need it and otherwise it is fairly softly
lit.

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...