Christmas tree lights

matelodave

Just put the tree up together with its traditional 3 strings of a hundred or so LED and incandescent fairy lights - they'll be on for 14 hours a day, for around 30 days and for those that worry about the cost of leccy it will come to a total £1.79 (leccy at 35.5p/kwh) not much more than a couple of nights in front of the telly

grumbler

matelodave said:

Just put the tree up together with its traditional 3 strings of a hundred or so LED and incandescent fairy lights - they'll be on for 14 hours a day, for around 30 days and for those that worry about the cost of leccy it will come to a total £1.79 (leccy at 35.5p/kwh) not much more than a couple of nights in front of the telly

1.79/0.355=5kWh

That's 42 hours of watching a modern 55 inches TV that consumes about 120W.

A little bit too much for couple of days IMHO.