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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
$500 lights up these neighborhood lights
Dec 10 2008 9:43AM | Permalink |Comments (4) |
After reading Brian Dipert’s paean to energy-efficient LED Christmas lights, I pulled out these photos of my neighbor’s Christmas lights. Unlike those hill-folk in the Truckee-Donner area, we don’t go in for subtle displays in the rural areas of San Luis Obispo County, California. If a couple of strands of lights look good, just think how great a myriad of strands surrounding 20 blow-up figures will be! My neighbor’s normal electric bill for the month: $50. For the month of December: $500. Yeah, those LEDs sound pretty good to me, too, Brian.
And another “plug”: You have until January 19 to submit your paper proposals on LED driver/control/thermal management for EDN’s Designing with LEDs Workshop.
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Reader Comments
at 12/10/2008 12:52:56 PM, Meredith Poor said:
Did someone use the words 'subtle' and 'Brian' in the same sentence?
at 12/10/2008 4:48:38 PM, Brian Dipert said:
Dear Meredith Poor, Don't be subtle, what's your point? ;-)
at 12/18/2008 2:12:01 PM, CBurke said:
Nothing says Christmas like browning out a section of the power grid... ; >
at 1/10/2009 9:02:53 PM, Sandy said:
That's cool. I went to a street on Pt Loma in San Diego this Christmas that had so many holiday lights the street needs its own transformer. I sure hope they were LEDs!
Great photos BTW
Sandy
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