Re: [Biofuel] Power Consumption of Lighting Timers

2009-05-13 Thread Darryl McMahon
It is hard to find this information, and the power consumption varies widely across manufacturers and models. I have done some testing on appliance timers, and using a Kill-A-Watt power meter I have found the power consumption varies from under a watt continuous to more than 5 watts. One of t

Re: [Biofuel] Power Consumption of Lighting Timers

2009-05-13 Thread Fritz
Ken Dunn wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope the cross-post is OK. I'm looking at adding a photo-sensitive > lighting timer for my lamp post light. However, I'm having a hard > time finding the energy consumption of the timer itself. Our lamp > post light is already on a photo sensor and we use a CFL bu

[Biofuel] Power Consumption of Lighting Timers

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Dunn
Hi all, I hope the cross-post is OK. I'm looking at adding a photo-sensitive lighting timer for my lamp post light. However, I'm having a hard time finding the energy consumption of the timer itself. Our lamp post light is already on a photo sensor and we use a CFL bulb. Ideally, the timer will