{"id":577,"date":"2012-06-16T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=577"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:52:44","slug":"how-many-hairdressers-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"How Many Hairdressers does it take to change a lightbulb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2012\/06\/MELVINPHOTO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-578\" title=\"Old Bulb on left New LED  on right\" src=\"http:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2012\/06\/MELVINPHOTO-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2012\/06\/MELVINPHOTO-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2012\/06\/MELVINPHOTO-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/files\/2012\/06\/MELVINPHOTO.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>None &#8211; \u00a0in this case; he didnt have any ladders and Lothian Renewables helped out!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>At a recent haircut, got chatting to the hairdresser about the savings that can be made by replacing traditional filament down-light with LED equivalents in this case replacing 50w GU10 bulbs with 4W equivalents with an annual savings on electric costs of \u00a3177, here\u2019s the maths &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Costs for electricity 12.06p\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cost of LED bulbs = \u00a37\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usage of lighting 7hr per day, 240 days per year<\/p>\n<p>46w (saving per bulb) x 19 bulbsx7hrsx12.06p = 73.8p per day<\/p>\n<p>73.8p x 240 = <strong>\u00a3177per year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The payback period will be 9.5 months and the LED bulbs are rated at over 20yrs of usage at current levels of use. The savings over the years will of course be more than \u00a3177 as electricity prices continue to rise and payback period will drop with the price of the LED lights<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us if you want any further details or clich here for a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledlightszone.co.uk\/gu10\/126-4w-gu10-led-20-smd5050-50w-equiv.html \">LED<\/a> light supplier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None &#8211; \u00a0in this case; he didnt have any ladders and Lothian Renewables helped out! Here&#8217;s the story &#8211; At a recent haircut, got chatting to the hairdresser about the savings that can be made by replacing traditional filament down-light with LED equivalents in this case replacing 50w GU10 bulbs with 4W equivalents with an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/?p=577\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Many Hairdressers does it take to change a lightbulb?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lothianrenewables.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}