On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:34:17 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Have you considered a dawn/dusk light with a low energy lamp? We have
one outside with an 11w lamp, cheap enough to run, on when its dark.

Nothing that's on when not needed is cheap enough to run for many old
ladies. My mother used to unplug the bedside clock radio when not used
as a radio because it obviously used electricity. And kept a battery
digital LCD clock there so she could check the time at night. Wouldn't
be persuaded that switching on the light to do this - and the cost of
the batteries - was more than the clock radio used.

I remember one who wouldn'y buy a particular model of transistor radio
because it would 'use more battery' than another model. The basis for
this was that the offending model required the knob to be turned 50% to
get her normal listening level, but the 'other' model required the knob
to be turned 25%...for the same output.



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