Xmas lights

Anyone know what wattage the regular old-style xmas light bulbs are? I want to calculate how much it's costing me to run the strings I have up.

Originally Posted by Shifty

Anyone know what wattage the regular old-style xmas light bulbs are? I want to calculate how much it's costing me to run the strings I have up.

Either 7w or 5w

a string of 70 5w will be 350w

new LED's are about 4w, for a whole string of 70 or 100 not as bright as old style but u can use alot more and not worry about breakers going off and much easier on the wallet.

For the mini-lights, it's 25W per 50 lights. I'm not sure what it is for the large bulbs.

Originally Posted by Steve_YXE

Either 7w or 5w

a string of 70 5w will be 350w

new LED's are about 4w, for a whole string of 70 or 100 not as bright as old style but u can use alot more and not worry about breakers going off and much easier on the wallet.

Don't forget about C9 - 9w - I have five strings for sale if you want.

Damn, so assuming 7w, I have about 1000w of lights up right now! I only leave them on for four hours a night, though, and only for a month, so not a huge deal.

I'll have to switch to LED next year, and I think I'll take out the flood light I have tonight.

Originally Posted by Shifty

Damn, so assuming 7w, I have about 1000w of lights up right now! I only leave them on for four hours a night, though, and only for a month, so not a huge deal.

I'll have to switch to LED next year, and I think I'll take out the flood light I have tonight.

Thats about $10.00 a month assuming 4 hrs a day and 8 cents a KW/h

I have 4X 75 LED 's they should cost about 20 cents a month for 4 hours a night.

I tend to leave them on more since its so cheap!

The electricity savings printed on the boxes of lights usually refer to California prices, of 12-15cents /KwH.

Ontario prices work out to about $.11/kwh when you add up all the extra fees. Still cheap, really, we aren't paying the full cost of power here yet.