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Originally Posted by slowsnake
You are a good son number 4, a credit to ya parents!  |
Its more akin to you dont know what you have untill its gone. So my dad died in 2019 aged 65. So back then i spent most my time career based.
My mum, shes 67, she doesnt need help, shes doing quite well for herself, but the few minor thing she isnt all over i help out where i can. So im not going to tell her this, but ive shifted my efforts towards what i value.
Mainly just little stuff. Like being an electrician by trade (ex electrician) mum asked my opinion if theres anything simple to lower electricity bills. Simple answer was yes, LED lighting upgrade.
Didnt like the quote she got. Labour was ok, but parts were well overpriced and colour was way off for my liking. So i got more appropriate downlight fittings, and for the pendents LED 78mm r7s in 3k for wholesale, fitted all in maybe 3 hour due to tea breaks etc. And its my mum. A tri colour led 92mm downlight fitting is $6 wholesale. So i wore the cost for 46 of them, because mum. Same with labour, did it for free because mum.
Ive spent many years doing lighting design.
Monster improvement moving away from 50w halogen downlights with iron core transformers (roughly 13w loss in the transformer) and 100w 78mm r7 linear halogens to 8w LED downeys and 8w 78MM LED r7s. Way more light coverage, still similar soft colour which for domestic i recomend, and power savings. Well, mum says its a big yes. Havent done the maths, but 7 100w r7s =700w. Swapped out to 8w LED r7s = 46w.
46x 50w dichroics using iron core tm50s at around 13w loss, that = 2898w.
So 46×8w LED downeys = 368w.
So, granted not all lights are turned on at the same time or all the time.
And its not unlike my mum cannot afford the bills. Hell, she has an upright minigrand piano in her 2 story waterfront penthouse. But not the point, in that case, it was just the initial quote was just effectively installing, no lighting design. But, whilst it may have worked perfectly fine, it would have ****ed me off. Did i want to do the work on my off time, no. Do i work for free? No. My mum has a nice place and to **** up the lighting, will i stand for that, no. Hence why i made it right for free. But hey, im happy with it, have been for years. Mums happy with the outcome and the lower electric city bills. So all around no complaints.