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re: Do you leave your Christmas lights on all night?

Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:15 am to
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:15 am to
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You have inflatables too, don't you?



If you have young kids and don't have inflatables, your kids probably hate you.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
81730 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:18 am to
Mine are on a timer -comes on around 6pm and goes off at 4am.

quote:

when I go to bed around 8:00


Are you 90 years old?
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14600 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:19 am to
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Mine stay on from the time I hang them, all the way to the first weekend after the 1st. They’re on now.


This.
Only the tree gets turned off when I retire.
Posted by PortHudsonPlaya
Houston
Member since Jul 2017
3170 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:29 am to
I get up at 4:00am, Chief, and go to the gym. By 8:00pm I’m struggling.
Posted by Wrestler171
Member since Apr 2010
875 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:40 am to
Solar, so mine stay on all night.
Posted by FishingwithFredo
Member since Dec 2014
216 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:43 am to
Off @ 10pm every night except Christmas Eve. They stay on all night for Christmas Eve...so Santa can find us of course.
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
15947 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:46 am to
A computer controls mine, so no. They turn off on their own when the computer shuts down.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
16344 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:58 am to
The few strings of outside lights on the upstairs porch rails are LED and are left on all night. When the tree is put up and lights used, they get turned off at night and whenever nobody is home.

Too damn many Christmas tree fires due to faulty light wiring to take the chance.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
34396 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:01 am to
Depends on if I forget to tell Alexa to turn them off. It's cool though because I found this cool stuff that looks like snow and is fireproof. Just poured it all of the house and yard.

Posted by CaptSpaulding
Member since Feb 2012
6706 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:18 am to
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If you have young kids and don't have inflatables, your kids probably are not trashy.


FIFY
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
100767 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:07 pm to
There's a house with one of those sparkly laser things that flashes blue. Every time I drive by it at night I think a cop is after me.
Posted by SpicyStacy
stout's fave
Member since Aug 2010
13343 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:12 pm to
I have a display synchronized to music with a timer set to come on at 5 and go off at 10 PM. We have several hundreds of strands of lights, one inflatable, 20 light up candy canes, 2 mega trees, 10 mini trees, and a few smaller light up plastic blow globe decorations. Everything is led and there is no difference in the light bill.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
59752 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:14 pm to
quote:

If you have young kids and don't have inflatables, your kids probably hate you.


Maybe, but you have to take a stand somewhere.
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
27366 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:25 pm to
Here's two better questions.

1. Do you leave your lights on when it's raining?

2. Do you leave your inflatables on 24/7, assuming your lights are on a timer? The inflatables never all come up when you turn them on, and if it rained and they were off, they have puddles on them that the air can't overcome the weight. But i don't like leaving those little fans on for a month straight without every turning off.

Posted by Kige Ramsey
1996,1998,2012.
Member since Jul 2007
44421 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:30 pm to
No I don't put none up
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
27366 posts
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:32 pm to
quote:

How much does that affect your light bill?


a 100 light LED strand pulls around 0.05amps
1 amp running 24/7 for 4 weeks is about $14, assuming 10 cents a kilowatt hr. If you have 20 strands of lights, that's just 1 amp. 20 strands of 100 lights is a good bit, about 450ft of lights.

The old C9 lights, just 25 of them, pulled 4amps a strand. The C9 LED lights pull 0.06amps.

Inflatables with LED lights in them run anywhere from .6 to 1.5 amps on average, depending on their size.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 12:35 pm
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