On 06/10/2010 05:38 AM, Boycott_BP@worldwide.com wrote:
> wrote:
>> On 09/06/10 1:22 PM, Roy wrote:
>>>> On 07/06/10 12:07 PM, Don Klipstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On 17/05/10 6:53 PM, Glenda Copeland wrote:
>>>>> <I snip a bit to edit for space>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you know how much power a lighted switch uses?
>>>>
>>>>>> These have an NE-2 neon bulb which draws about 0.6mA, so at 120V it's
>>>>>> around 0.07 watts. So 1000 lighted switches would be a little less than
>>>>>> a 75 watt light bulb.
>>>>
>>>>> My experience with a lighted switch is that its neon lamp is either
>>>>> an A1C ("mini-NE-2H") or a C2A (NE-2H). Those get more like 2 mA.
>>>>
>>>> I was going by the NE-2, which actually is about 0.03W at 120V, but an
>>>> NE-2H is about 0.2W, and an A1C is about 0.14W. So if the light switch
>>>> was never turned on, and it was an NE-2H, it would be about 1.7KWH per
>>>> year, so you're right, about 2KW a year if it's an NE-2H.
>>>
>>> ==
>>> Which is negligible...not to worry about...not to budget for...not to
>>> have ulcers over. In other words...forget it.
>>
>> I agree, probably 25 cents per switch per year. But didn't someone claim
>> that they'd reduced their electric bill by $2.50 a month by getting rid
>> of a bunch of these sorts of loads? I doubt if it was true.
> 25 cents a year is enough for me to rip them all out from my house. I
> already got rid of the doorbell because the doorbell transformer costs
> close to $10 a year. It dont cost anything to post a sign on the door
> that says "KNOCK HARD".
> If you want to see your light switches at night. put one of those
> solar powered sidewalk lights in a window in every room.
I couldn't find any white Decora style dimmer switches that *weren't*
also lighted in any store near me. That's the main reason that I have
two lighted switches in my house (the design department wanted Decora on
the first floor.)
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>> On 09/06/10 1:22 PM, Roy wrote:
>>>> On 07/06/10 12:07 PM, Don Klipstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On 17/05/10 6:53 PM, Glenda Copeland wrote:
>>>>> <I snip a bit to edit for space>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you know how much power a lighted switch uses?
>>>>
>>>>>> These have an NE-2 neon bulb which draws about 0.6mA, so at 120V it's
>>>>>> around 0.07 watts. So 1000 lighted switches would be a little less than
>>>>>> a 75 watt light bulb.
>>>>
>>>>> My experience with a lighted switch is that its neon lamp is either
>>>>> an A1C ("mini-NE-2H") or a C2A (NE-2H). Those get more like 2 mA.
>>>>
>>>> I was going by the NE-2, which actually is about 0.03W at 120V, but an
>>>> NE-2H is about 0.2W, and an A1C is about 0.14W. So if the light switch
>>>> was never turned on, and it was an NE-2H, it would be about 1.7KWH per
>>>> year, so you're right, about 2KW a year if it's an NE-2H.
>>>
>>> ==
>>> Which is negligible...not to worry about...not to budget for...not to
>>> have ulcers over. In other words...forget it.
>>
>> I agree, probably 25 cents per switch per year. But didn't someone claim
>> that they'd reduced their electric bill by $2.50 a month by getting rid
>> of a bunch of these sorts of loads? I doubt if it was true.
> 25 cents a year is enough for me to rip them all out from my house. I
> already got rid of the doorbell because the doorbell transformer costs
> close to $10 a year. It dont cost anything to post a sign on the door
> that says "KNOCK HARD".
> If you want to see your light switches at night. put one of those
> solar powered sidewalk lights in a window in every room.