My wife likes to keep the house roughly in the style of the period in which it was built.\u00a0 That in turn means ornate light fittings with candle style light globes at the top and bottom of the stairs.\u00a0 Those candle globes are not yet attractive in the energy saving format, so we still use incandescents.<\/p>\n
Each fitting holds five globes, at 40Watts each that is 400Watts of energy.\u00a0 If we go away for a night or two we like to keep those lights on.\u00a0 Without a timer that means 9.6KWh wasted every day.<\/p>\n
Solution?\u00a0 Simple: we have a separate low energy light in a recessed fitting at the top of the stairs; 11Watts, 0.264KWh in a day.\u00a0 The incandescents get used only when we need to impress guests.<\/p>\n
In our case, it was an accident in remodeling.\u00a0 The recessed light was left over from a previous iteration.\u00a0 In new construction it\u2019s an insignificant addition – providing it\u2019s specified up front.\u00a0 In \u201cold work\u201d it depends on the house.\u00a0 Snaking new wires is never easy.\u00a0 One way to avoid having to snake wires to a switch is to use a wireless solution like X.10 (http:\/\/www.x10wti.com\/<\/a>).\u00a0 It\u2019s a simple and cost effective way to gain some security and save on electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you must use incandescent lights consider using an additional energy saving light to use for security and nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}