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Harry Bloomfield[_3_] Harry Bloomfield[_3_] is offline
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Default Door Bell Transformer

on 26/11/2010, Frank Erskine supposed :
Most of that consumption (unless you have an awful lot of callers) is
probably being eaten up by the bulb in the pushbutton.


Budget around half a watt or so for that. You could reduce it by
replacing it with a suitable white LED.

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