On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:19:21 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 11/19/2006 11:03 AM, JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:47:58 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 11/19/2006 10:40 AM, Don White wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
On 11/19/2006 8:09 AM, Jim wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:25:01 GMT, James Sweet
wrote:

Inverters are rated in watts.

Less than two watts for 100 mini lights.

I ran two six foot Christmas trees, about 5 100 light mini string and
four light strings off a 350 watt inverter at last years Festival of
Lights in Putnam and it didn't even breathe hard.

Have a freakin' ball with the lights. :)
Try closer to 50W for a string of 100 mini lights, unless they're the
LED type.
No way. And just to prove a point, I went out to the garage and
looked on a box of colored mini lights - 150 string.

2.4 watts.

I was a little surprised honestly, but last year I acquired a
power analyzer and ran around plugging in everything I could find in
the
house. The Christmas tree with miniature lights on it was pulling
around
350W, at which point I started checking individual strings.
Incandescent
loads have a unity power factor, so you can measure the amp draw with
any cheap multimeter and use ohms law to calculate the watts.
Interesting - that string I ran on my truck drew less than 200 watts
total.
NO WAY
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I just checked a set of icicle lights.
Individual lights =2.5V
Total of 100 lights
Fuse = 3A
No where on the package could I find watts or amps rating.
Measured draw = 300MA or 36 W


You guys need something useful to do. Come on down here. Now that most
of the leaves have fallen off the trees in my woods, and the visibility
is good, I need some fallen timber cut up and hauled. I got 24" and 28"
chain saws, axes, carts, whatever you need.
I wouldn't trust half the characters in here with a dull butter
knife...let alone a 28" chain saw!
I finally got my 8 month old Ranger truck dirty yesterday hauling the
scrap lumber from my deck addition project to a construction debris
site. One more load should make my backyard presentable.


Come on...imagine "Smithers" with a real chain saw. He's surely cut off
both his legs.

For someone you don't give an *f* about, you sure whine about Reggie a lot.
Have you ever noticed that?


Facilitating again, eh?

You needed none. You did quite nicely without!