On Sep 20, 7:53*am, Donwill wrote:
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.

My grannie used to go round all the sockets in her house (and there
wern't that many in those days 1946ish) to switch them off irrespective
of whether there was a plug in it or not as the electricity would leak
out you see.
Don

If you get years of muck in a socket, you some leakage often happens.
And sometimes switching the socket off stops it. Its a very trivial
amount of course, the sort of thing that's only picked up by testing.


NT