A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark

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A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark


Isn't there a website that answers questions like this?
answer.com or something like that.

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

On 29 Nov 2005 07:46:32 GMT, Jim Yanik wrote:

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A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark


Isn't there a website that answers questions like this?
answer.com or something like that.

I doubt it, because it depends on the number of lights.
This is just a fun topic anyhow.

wrote:
A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark

Not exact since you don't know how many lamps of what size are used. If
they were all average miniature lights that would be over 500,000 watts or
over 4,000 amps on 120V.

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Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message

Not exact since you don't know how many lamps of what size are used.
If they were all average miniature lights that would be over 500,000 watts
or over 4,000 amps on 120V.


On my street, that would be about $75 and hour to operate.

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:38:08 -0600, wrote:

A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark

The miniature lights are usually in series on 50 bulbs. A series takes
about 200mA. That would mean 250 lights per amp, so 1 million
miniature lights would use 4KA (4,000A) or 480KW (480,000W).

Or course it would be more with C9 or other lights too.

According to my measurements (I don't have nearly that many lights,
but do have enough to need to consider electrical load) a string (25)
of C9 lights uses about 1.5A (180W). The lighted animated (head moves
up & down) deer I have (40-inch doe, 48-inch buck) use around .6A
(72W) each.

Incandescent lights use somewhat more current when starting.

Extension cords claim 13A, but can overheat if current exceeds 10 or
11A.

BTW, I have pictures of my lights at
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com/winter.html . I don't have this
year's pictures yet (but expect to have them soon). This year, they
will look similar to last year's, but with a few more.
--
26 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

"Joseph Meehan" wrote in
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wrote:
A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck
of it)
Very nice display !

Mark

Not exact since you don't know how many lamps of what size are
used. If
they were all average miniature lights that would be over 500,000
watts or over 4,000 amps on 120V.


I'm sure the people paying the electric bills could find out what their
displays used in addition to the normal usage.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message

Not exact since you don't know how many lamps of what size are used.
If they were all average miniature lights that would be over 500,000
watts or over 4,000 amps on 120V.


On my street, that would be about $75 and hour to operate.

At this display they get $12 to $15 per car !
http://www.brightnights.org/information/index.html

Bill

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:25:18 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
wrote:

wrote:
A local park is advertising they are running just over one million
lights in their display. Most are the miniature type, but there are
some of the outdoor C9 bulbs (probably 3000 of them), and about 20
flood bulbs. (100 watt) Plus some animation motors. I'm
mathematically challenged.... Can anyone come up with some sort of
amperage to run all of this. I'm just trying to figure out what it
takes to run this display that covers about 5 acres. (for the heck of
it)
Very nice display !

Mark

Not exact since you don't know how many lamps of what size are used. If
they were all average miniature lights that would be over 500,000 watts or
over 4,000 amps on 120V.

I agree this is sort of a guess because the strings are probably
different lengths and all, but yes, they are the average mini lights
except for those C9s and floods and a few other things. I was mainly
asking about the mini lights. The rest is pretty easy to figure.
That's a lot of watts !!! I'd hate to pay their elec bill.