Daily cost to run LED Xmass Lights

paddy147

I bought a few sets of Tesco 200 and 300 LED Christmnas lights and my girlfriend installed them around the house and garden.

Can anyone with some knowladge please tell me roughly what would be the daily cost to run a set of 300 lights?

All the lights are on 7 day digital timers and come on at 4;30pm and go off at 1am...so 8.5 hours daily use.

Ive attached a pic of the specs of the lights.


So what would the daily running cost be,per a 300 set of lights??

Thanks.:)

Frynge

i could be wrong but i reckon less than €3 for the entire xmas period

paddy147

Frynge wrote: »

i could be wrong but i reckon less than €3 for the entire xmas period

Girlfriend and myself were talking about it earlier this evening,after she said that was it,she was putting up no more lights.:pac::D


2 x 200 set of LED lights on the indoor tree.
1 x 100 set of LED lights around the front porch.
1 x 200 set of LED lights along the raised railway sleeper garden border.
2 x 200 set of LED lights on the outdoor Christmas tree.
1 x 300 set of LED lights around the roofs/guttering on the house

Bruthal

paddy147 wrote: »

I bought a few sets of Tesco 300 LED Christmnas lights and my girlfriend installed them around the house and garden.

Can anyone with some knowladge please tell me roughly what would be the daily cost to run a set of 300 lights?

All the lights are on 7 day digital timers and come on at 4;30pm and go off at 1am...so 8.5 hours daily use.

Ive attached a pic of the specs of the lights.


So what would the daily running cost be,per each 300 set of lights??

Thanks.:)

An 8 hour period is not even worth mentioning. For 24 hours a day for 7 days is 27 cent for a 300 set if the max is 9 watts.

If we take that as 50% efficient for a worst case scenario, that would be 54 cent per week per set of 300.

Since they will only be on 8 hours a day, you can run 3 sets for 7 days for 54 cent if the efficiency was as low as 50%. Either way its very little.

paddy147

Fantastic......Thats news to me ears so.:D

Dynamo Roller1

LEDs are very easy on power

paddy147

Dynamo Roller1 wrote: »

LEDs are very easy on power

I knew it wouldnt be much,but the figures posted above are music to my ears indeed.:D

Bruthal

paddy147 wrote: »

Fantastic......Thats news to me ears so.:D

O wait a second, €54 a week I meant*






*Only jokin:)

Bruthal

paddy147 wrote: »

I knew it wouldnt be much,but the figures posted above are music to my ears indeed.:D

Yea they cost little to run. I have a set out on a tree in the garden I mentioned before, coming on with a dark sensor. I leave on all night, the longest of which will be this Friday, although that`s not the earliest sunset, which was last Friday. More useless info there.

paddy147

robbie7730 wrote: »

Yea they cost little to run. I have a set out on a tree in the garden I mentioned before, coming on with a dark sensor. I leave on all night, the longest of which will be this Friday, although that`s not the earliest sunset, which was last Friday. More useless info there.

Ah yeah the 21st......That last day of human civilization,,then its into your underground bunker and call out to any other survivors on the ham radio.:pac::D

DEVEREUX

paddy147 wrote: »

Girlfriend and myself were talking about it earlier this evening,after she said that was it,she was putting up no more lights.:pac::D


2 x 200 set of LED lights on the indoor tree.
1 x 100 set of LED lights around the front porch.
1 x 200 set of LED lights along the raised railway sleeper garden border.
2 x 200 set of LED lights on the outdoor Christmas tree.
1 x 300 set of LED lights around the roofs/guttering on the house

Jaesus.....fair play to her.

Bruthal

paddy147 wrote: »

Ah yeah the 21st......That last day of human civilization,,then its into your underground bunker and call out to any other survivors on the ham radio.:pac::D

I was about to dig my one, but I think there would be a bunker tax

Bruthal

Paddy`s driveway


I hope your not too near the airport paddy

paddy147

robbie7730 wrote: »

Paddy`s driveway


I hope your not too near the airport paddy

I am actually.:D

paddy147

DEVEREUX wrote: »

Jaesus.....fair play to her.

Yep,she hopped up on the ladder and installed all the gutter clips and then all the lighting too.
I was banned from using the camera during the process though.:(:pac::D