Comments on: Electricity Challenge - Let There Be Light

By: Precious_1

Precious_1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:33:00 +0000

Yes I get like that. The precious bit comes from an old msn chat nickname I had years ago. Once the Lord of the rings came out it was all “precious one this and precious one that” lol It kind of stuck. It gets shortened to “prec” so any variation of precious/prec/precious1/prec1 etc works. Its much easier to use the same or similar everywhere you go instead of making up something completely new with every group/service you join.

Bettina

By: lightening

lightening — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:12:00 +0000

Thanks for letting me know that Bettina. I like your “precious” title. I may even just keep calling you precious - cos of course you are! The internet world is quite interesting with all the “aliases” isn’t it. I use a few different ones around the place - not deliberately. Sometimes it just depends on if what I normally use is available or not.

By: Precious_1

Precious_1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:44:00 +0000

oh, I’m Bettina from FIA btw.

By: Precious_1

Precious_1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:43:00 +0000

They also had red and green ones! I’m hoping they still have some left in a fortnights time (my payday) so I can get some more to string across our back verandah

By: lightening

lightening — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:06:00 +0000

Ooh, I’m getting all excited now. Blue solar lights! Sounds nice. I’m going to keep my eyes peeled now. I can see solar lights being in people’s Chrissy pressies this year!

By: Precious_1

Precious_1 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:47:00 +0000

We picked up a solar sensor floodlight a few weeks back at Thrifty Link for &85 and we love it! We hooked it up in our carport and it works great even on overcast days. I'd like to get another one for the backyard.

We also found at GoLo some blue decorative ball lights (like christmas lights) that were also solar ones for $10 and strung them across the front of the carport so that its easy to spot when we come home in the dark (our front yard is really dark and its easy to miss the driveway).

Now if we could just get the inside of the house to be as energy efficient! lol

Good luck, the kids and I are watching with interest your energy reduction adventure.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:59:00 +0000

I’m glad that Ergon Energy calculator was useful to you! Our house is full of down lights and we still have 6 to replace with the compact fluros ~ it is an expensive outlay!!

Sensor lights are great especially if you come home and it’s dark ~ I’ve never seen solar ones before!