470 watts, Holy smokes!!!

[Cybrvanr]

4 light strings with 25 C7 Bulb sockets, each filled with a 5 watt "twinkle brite bulb"

Start by warming up some leftovers when you get home from work.

Then, plug in the christmas tree equipped with the above lights.

BZZZZZTT!!!! BLOW A CIRCUIT BREAKER!!!

Start turning things off, reset the breaker

Grab the Watts up meter, and try to figure out what the dirty culprit was!

Realize that your christmas tree is pulling a LOT of electricity!!!

Remember that you haven't installed a separate circuit for the microwave yet, and the dining area (where the tree is) and the kitchen are still on the same circuit

...Maybe I ought to write to G.E. and complain that their bulbs are not all the way up to spec! I'M GETTING SHORTED 30 WATTS!!!

...PLAN B: wait till all the lights warm up and start blinking, thus lowering the average draw

 

[bingwsguy]

Funny

I tend to "do it up" at Christmas time. Last week it was unseasonably warm so the heat wasn't kicking on much. One night it felt kind of warm in here so I looked at the thermostat and just the Christmas lights had warmed it up 4 degrees over a 4 hour period. Can't wait to see the bill.....

 

[jonv112]

You better look into some LEDs...

 

[toggleswitch]

A friend of mine had to put his tree on two freikin' circuits.

Think it was well lit?

 

[exploder321]

Two Circuits???? OMG, that must be the christmas tree i see off my roof!!@!

 

[toggleswitch]

Said sarcastically:

Its not about the sprit dears, it's about the SHOW!

*LOL*

 

[exploder321]

And the $700 power bill???????????? Oh well..Thats Just anot

If my neighbor where i used to live has put those net lights all over the junked cars in his yard this year i will post the pics....He did it last year and got into big trouble with the city conservationists... Never got a chance for pictures... But he said if he did it again they would stay for the entire season...

 

[gansky1]

We got rid of an artificial tree last year - 7 ft. skinny version that I had 1300 lights and 6 Ornamotion twirling hangers piled onto. I left it set up with the lights on, stored in the basement closet - it weighed a ton and drew a ton of electricity. Even with the minature lights, it was like a space heater in the room.

After 8 years, it was falling apart and the lights were barely staying lit so we pitched it and got a real balsam fir tree this year with the C-7 lights, it's very fun and we don't have to store a tree anymore!

 

[petek]

I noticed the hardware store near me had bubble lights again. Seems like some years you can't find them then they show the next year again. I hope I brought mine cept they're sort of a bugger to get straight on a real tree branch.

 

[tolivac]

One of my neighbors has all kinds of Christmas lights and blow-up decorations in their yard-then lots of garden lights,and in the house---6 Christmas trees including one on the rear porch.Its all very pretty-but when I go by that house I think of christmas Vactation-the back up "Nuclear"?Wonder what their enertgy bill is?Maybe don't wanna know.