Re: Motion Sensor Light for Front Entrance

[Art Todesco <actodesco@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/27/2010 10:33 AM, Robert Green wrote:
>
> P.S. to Art.  Glad you asked this question, nothing at all's changed but I
> feel alot better that X-10's not eating 400 watts just "being there."  I
> feel a lot worse though, about where all those extra watts are going.  A
> while back someone suggested that the older the house wiring, the more
> likely substantial amount of juice are going up in heat in the wires.  That
> would not be good. )-:
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
Just to set it straight, I did an
instantaneous reading on the Kill-A-Watt
... I didn't even know there was a long
term read .... engineers never read the
manuals ... I'm not even sure where it
is.   As to "heat in the wires", what do
you mean?  And, how did you measure the
400 watts?   400 watts is just under 4
amps and that's a lot.  My guess would
be that you have something connected and
using power that is "hidden".