{"id":207723,"date":"2010-01-20T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27523059.post-105212320274114313"},"modified":"2010-01-20T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:38:09","slug":"a-lighting-hackea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207723","title":{"rendered":"A lighting hackea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple light hack but one that helps Stefan save energy.<\/p>\n<p>We have a dining room table light (not made by IKEA) which has 5 E14 fitting type bulbs. The original bulbs were 25W a piece, which adds up to 125W total. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVxrAv96I\/AAAAAAAAHS0\/5d7yzYgYbzA\/s1600-h\/IMG_2919-758047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429042925154596770\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVxrAv96I\/AAAAAAAAHS0\/5d7yzYgYbzA\/s400\/IMG_2919-758047.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nTrying to reduce our energy usage I decided to replace with the 5W <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/nl\/nl\/catalog\/products\/00131384\" >Sparsam<\/a> CFL&#8217;s. At first it didn&#8217;t look too pretty. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVyBsPjGI\/AAAAAAAAHS8\/MZ_Ogler9VQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_2918-760038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429042931242601570\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVyBsPjGI\/AAAAAAAAHS8\/MZ_Ogler9VQ\/s400\/IMG_2918-760038.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe solution was simple: spray-paint them to a matching color and so the label text isn&#8217;t visible anymore. The result: energy usage dropped from 125W to 25W. On the last picture you can see lights 1, 2 and 5 have been replaced with the Sparsam bulbs, lights 3 and 4 are original (for comparison purposes).<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVym1TztI\/AAAAAAAAHTE\/V2fDvMkdTa4\/s1600-h\/IMG_2920-762188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429042941212741330\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVym1TztI\/AAAAAAAAHTE\/V2fDvMkdTa4\/s400\/IMG_2920-762188.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVzOicREI\/AAAAAAAAHTM\/B82pzmWFMBQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_2921-764035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429042951871022146\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S1fVzOicREI\/AAAAAAAAHTM\/B82pzmWFMBQ\/s400\/IMG_2921-764035.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/27523059-105212320274114313?l=ikeahacker.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zIALj0yxGVcJ1UuD8HBAHMZOC7Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zIALj0yxGVcJ1UuD8HBAHMZOC7Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zIALj0yxGVcJ1UuD8HBAHMZOC7Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zIALj0yxGVcJ1UuD8HBAHMZOC7Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=zxinQoPhJhk:gKnkCVdxVI8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=zxinQoPhJhk:gKnkCVdxVI8:4cEx4HpKnUU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?i=zxinQoPhJhk:gKnkCVdxVI8:4cEx4HpKnUU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Ikeahacker\/~4\/zxinQoPhJhk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple light hack but one that helps Stefan save energy. We have a dining room table light (not made by IKEA) which has 5 E14 fitting type bulbs. The original bulbs were 25W a piece, which adds up to 125W total. Trying to reduce our energy usage I decided to replace with the 5W [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}