ext_93637 ([identity profile] t-c-da.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] shadesofmauve 2013-08-03 05:50 am (UTC)

This is all part of the "Owning your own home" syndrome...

We have a continuous flow gas hot water system which is very useful for households with lots of folk, and while we only have me & $wife in residence, we do occasionally get smothered in offspring with/without hangers on and it's comforting to know there'll still be hot water for the last shower...

I'm currently working my way through substituting LED lamps for CFL for two reasons; 1) they're cheaper to run, and 2) they are more reliable in the long run (switching them on and off in short repeated cycles destroys CFLs but not LEDs so far as I can tell). The last set of LEDs I bought at $NZ25 each say 30,000 hours anticipated life. Great for hall lights that tend to stay on all day and night ($wife was born in a tent and seems to not know how to turn off lights most of the time). I have a 2W LED lamp at the top of the internal stairs which never gets turned off.

An interesting thing I noticed about the LED lamps is the presence of a switched mode power supply in the globe which will run on 100-240VAC - so the same device for US/Japan (110/120) and the rest of the world (220-240) which improves the economies of scale for the product.

An aside: the wobbles continue apace...

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