I have pentair 500W bulbs in my pool. 3 in the pool and 1 in the spa.
at 35c/kw going up to 40c soon i'm moving all my lights in my home to LED and overall getting energy efficient appliances.
I got a quote from the local pool company for replacing my incandescent bulbs with intellibrite 5G (one quote for color and one quote for white).
Its seriously expensive, as in $4K with tax and installed expensive. About $3K for the lights and $1K for the installation (they have to pull wire about 100ft to a junction box). color is about $4K. They recommended pentair intellibrite because i have intellitouch and it would work great with my automation.
They also said i could get an LED bulb. that would be about half vs pentair.
So i'm seeking advice, what would the community advice me to do. Move to an LED bulb (likely white) or move to pentair intellibrite?
I don't want to repair these a lot, so i want something with quality.
i am in norcal, i have an automatic pool cover. The lights are only on if we are outside in the summer and keep the pool open. Lets say 30-40 days a year for 4-6 hours in the evening.
If you tell me to leave it alone and do nothing then i'm game for that too. But with the local utility putting me in even more punative cost tiers for my energy consumption i really want to cut energy as much as i can.
Thanks for your wisdom!
at 35c/kw going up to 40c soon i'm moving all my lights in my home to LED and overall getting energy efficient appliances.
I got a quote from the local pool company for replacing my incandescent bulbs with intellibrite 5G (one quote for color and one quote for white).
Its seriously expensive, as in $4K with tax and installed expensive. About $3K for the lights and $1K for the installation (they have to pull wire about 100ft to a junction box). color is about $4K. They recommended pentair intellibrite because i have intellitouch and it would work great with my automation.
They also said i could get an LED bulb. that would be about half vs pentair.
So i'm seeking advice, what would the community advice me to do. Move to an LED bulb (likely white) or move to pentair intellibrite?
I don't want to repair these a lot, so i want something with quality.
i am in norcal, i have an automatic pool cover. The lights are only on if we are outside in the summer and keep the pool open. Lets say 30-40 days a year for 4-6 hours in the evening.
If you tell me to leave it alone and do nothing then i'm game for that too. But with the local utility putting me in even more punative cost tiers for my energy consumption i really want to cut energy as much as i can.
Thanks for your wisdom!