687,000 Christmas Lights...

[Dean Hoffman]

<https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/>
The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities. The light display is synched with music.

 

[Bob Engelhardt]

On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/
The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities. The light display is synched with music.

Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s 68,700w; 286A
of 240v;

 

[John Robertson]

On 2021/12/05 8:06 p.m., Bob Engelhardt wrote:

On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/>

    The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities.  The light display is synched with music.


Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s 68,700w; 286A
of 240v;

And we won\'t talk about the light pollution...

Sigh, I like Christmas light to some extent, but really, some of these
displays get to be a bit much.

Bah! Humbug!

John :-#)#

 

[server]

John Robertson <spam@flippers.com> wrote in
news:24GdnZqKoolLBzD8nZ2dnUU7-QmdnZ2d@giganews.com:

Sigh, I like Christmas light to some extent, but really, some of
these displays get to be a bit much.

Bah! Humbug!

John :-#)#
Attachment decoded: untitled-1.txt

The guy had a theme for you too. It said \"STOP THAT\".

I saw a guy at the gas station I grab a coffee from sometimes. He
works there. An old Navy guy. The other day I saw him sitting outside
havig his cigarette (yes at a gas station 25\' from the pumps)and I
noticed he had a string of Christmas lights draped around him like a
Mexican bandito. I laughed and said \"I\'ll bet you\'re glad that those
are not the old 120 Volt jobs.\" and he laughed... Made me think of
\"Down Periscope\", and so I said \"Hey have you ever seen that movie
\"Down Periscope\"? and he goes \"No\". I was like \"No way!\" and he said
he had just bought it on DVD and had yet to sit down and watch it.

I am going to keep checking with him when I grab a coffee. The
\'electrician\' in that movie is hilarious... or the radioman or yeah...
that guy.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:06:30 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
<BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:

On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/
The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities. The light display is synched with music.


Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s 68,700w; 286A
of 240v;

100 mW sounds high for an LED Christmas light.

--

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

 

[Tauno Voipio]

On 6.12.21 20.24, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 23:06:30 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:

On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/
The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities. The light display is synched with music.


Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s 68,700w; 286A
of 240v;

100 mW sounds high for an LED Christmas light.

1.6 V at 10 mA per LED (16 mW) is nearer: total will be around 11 kW.

--

-TV

 

[Richard Sulin]

On Monday, December 6, 2021 at 4:06:36 AM UTC, bobenge...@gmail.com wrote:

On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-687000-christmas-lights/
The article says the Unionvale, NY fire department collects money for
the local charities. The light display is synched with music.

Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s 68,700w; 286A
of 240v;

and consider, these mega-LED displays are just upstate NY area (WIBX broadcast
area).
We can assume such human excess-lighting is occuring all across our electrified
earth.
What\'s a little more global warming, to spread more cheer! eh?

cheerio, RS

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Richard Sulin <richard.sulin@consumer.org> wrote in
news:61fe75ed-f36e-4b16-9a82-355486a08d3cn@googlegroups.com:

On Monday, December 6, 2021 at 4:06:36 AM UTC,
bobenge...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/2021 3:49 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://wibx950.com/ny-family-top-their-own-world-record-with-6
87000-christmas-lights/> The article says the Unionvale, NY
fire department collects money for the local charities. The
light display is synched with music.

Even if those lights are small LED\'s at 1/10w each that\'s
68,700w; 286A of 240v;


and consider, these mega-LED displays are just upstate NY area
(WIBX broadcast
area).
We can assume such human excess-lighting is occuring all across
our electrified earth.
What\'s a little more global warming, to spread more cheer! eh?

cheerio, RS

I wonder how many \"Cray 1\"s worth of compute power it has (read
requires?) now over when it was first started.