On 3/30/2009 9:02 PM Don Klipstein spake thus:

The overload could be from rich college kids having 42 inch plasma TVs
and refrigerators for beer in most bedrooms and most living rooms and 300
watt halogen torchiere lamps almost everywhere and computers running in
most bedrooms. I say "have the flashlights handy" when the weather gets
warm enough to need air conditioning during the "school year" to remove
the heat produced by all those beer cooling refrigerators, 42 inch plasma
TVs and 300 watt halogen lamps that my workplace's neighbors have!

Not a great example: TVs don't use that much juice, nor do computers.
300-watt torchieres could add up to something significant pretty quickly
(my term for those lamps is "firestarters").

I probably use more power than your neighbors, as I have an electric
water heater (small one, 20 gal.) and an electric dryer. (But no air
conditioner, thank you.)


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