{"id":198,"date":"2016-10-23T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:48:54","slug":"basement-transition-from-halogen-to-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2016\/10\/23\/basement-transition-from-halogen-to-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement Transition from Halogen to LED"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Amazon Prime. You’ll see why later.<\/p>\n

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Old halogen light with screw on base<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our basement were filled with these old Halogen MR16 pot lights that each took up 50W each! I had ten\u00a0of them, so this ends up to be half a kWh. This means at an average rate of $0.13 \/ kWh, I’m burning about a quarter every two hours. This may not seem much in the beginning, but it adds up. I’ll let you do the math for a month and a year.<\/p>\n

I went to Amazon and found an LED equivalent called PAR16, and found them at Can Lighting Inc<\/a>. They had a package of ten, so I ordered them. With Amazon Prime, they arrived the\u00a0day after, which was yesterday, with free shipping.<\/p>\n

Now instead of 50W each they are only burning 6W each, 12% of the original cost.<\/p>\n

I also learned that the number after MR or PAR is the width of bulb in 1\/8 of an inch, so 16 is 2 inches or approximately 50 cm. The screw on base is called E26, instead of the small two prongs called Gu10. Very confusing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Amazon Prime. You’ll see why later. Our basement were filled with these old Halogen MR16 pot lights that each took up 50W each! I had ten\u00a0of them, so this ends up to be half a kWh. This means at an average rate of $0.13 \/ kWh, I’m burning about a quarter every two … Continue reading “Basement Transition from Halogen to LED”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/71J8-G9eYPL._SL1500_.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}