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Additional gas bill per 2000 hours to replace lost heat? probably about £5 So £9.23 per 2000 hours in reality. Good point. 2000 hours of 100-23w = 2000x77w = 154kWh gas @1.5p/kWh = £2.31 Heating in use lets say 2/3 the year, so the saved money in that is 2/3 x 2.31 = £1.54 Thus real saving figure now: £13:23 to £9:03 per light fitting per 2000 hours. Last questions are how many such fittings does it take to light a house, and how long does it take to use the lights for 2000 hours. NT |
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N. Thornton wrote:
Fwom:The Natural Philosopher ) Additional gas bill per 2000 hours to replace lost heat? probably about £5 So £9.23 per 2000 hours in reality. Good point. 2000 hours of 100-23w = 2000x77w = 154kWh gas @1.5p/kWh = £2.31 Heating in use lets say 2/3 the year, so the saved money in that is 2/3 x 2.31 = £1.54 Thus real saving figure now: £13:23 to £9:03 per light fitting per 2000 hours. Last questions are how many such fittings does it take to light a house, and how long does it take to use the lights for 2000 hours. How many fittings to light a house? Those halogen spots are pretty small area wise in terms of what they do. I would say that 25W/sq meter is reasonable. I.e. abourt 2 sq meters per 50W spot. Although we are running at far less than that here mainly. 3000 hours is one third of a year. 10,000 hours per year is an 'always on' figure. If the lights go on say at 6pm and off at 12pm in any given location, that's a 25% duty cycle - so 2500 hours per year. As an intereting aside, I have 6x5 meter rooms one of which is teh kitcen,. The Aga fully heats that except on the coldest of nights, at a rated 600W output. To light it at 25W/square would take 750W. More than enough to heat it completely. In practice is has a mere 520W and dark areas. It's got 9x50W LV halogens and 3x60W candle bulbs. In an ideal eco world it would probably have 6x25W sstrip lights :-) But those would really look ugly... I look forward to hoghly decorated OLED lighting in due course. NT |
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