Ikea’s Eco-lights

If there is one thing people care less about is monitoring their power consumption during the holidays when they tend to go all out to make their house be filled with Christmas designs through the usual Christmas lights we can purchase from stores today.
Ikea, a known home depot where such Christmas accessories and needs can be bought now offers eco-lights in lieu of this excessive power consuming standard Christmas lights. The key here is their wattage, and with eco-lights, people will only be consuming about 0.6 watts which is less than the normal rates which we only get to see after the Christmas season is over.
(Source) So, how green are they? Well, each one uses just 0.6 watts — far less than the humble energy-saving bulb, the CFL. The secret, as eco lighting warriors will have already guessed, is that they’re LEDs rather than conventional bulbs: the sort of super-efficient lighting picked by TV star Penney Poyzer for her Nottingham Ecohome kitchen. Just try not to cancel out the energy savings for buying a dozen of the stars — only Welsh villages can pull off excess Xmas lighting competitions properly.











