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Unread 02-14-2004, 11:51 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by guandi
hehe, mine are 240v lightbulbs, so i've saved even more
Except you haven't because electricity is charged in kW/h, not based on current drawn by individual devices. A 100W lightbulb consumes a similar amount of power to a 100W TEC and thus costs a similar amount to run (probably cheaper to run the bulb because you don't lose power transforming the voltage to 12VDC first).
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