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I would guess that guy has waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy more money into the display then his electric bill would be. And anyone that puts that much cash into their Christmas lights doesn't care what the electric bill is. Thats pretty awesome though.
also, amazing thing is, its all plugged into one single 2 prong inlet.
Taken from his website....
How much power does it take? How much is your electric bill?
If everything was on, it would consume about 33,000 watts or 300 amps. I had to install 17 dedicated circuits to be able to power everything. Most of the time only 30% of the display is on because it is animiated which helpes conserve power. A lot of smaller displays acutally use more power than mine, because they are always "ON". The power bill for 2007 was only about $100 more than normal.
A standard residential electrical outlet is on a 15 amp breaker, 20 amp in certain situations. That's a far cry from 300 amps.
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