Why this site exists
Seasonal decorating is full of questions with real numerical answers that nobody publishes. How many strings can I put on one circuit? Will a 24-inch wreath fit a 24-inch box? How many feet of strand does that reel hold? What does a display cost to run for a season? How many lights does a 7.5-foot tree need?
Every one of those has an answer you can derive from a published specification and some arithmetic. Almost nobody does the arithmetic. The pages that rank for those questions tend to be either an affiliate list with no specifications on it at all, or an installation company answering in order to sell you an installation.
So: 41 pages, 97 products with their published specifications compiled, and the working shown on every calculation. That is the whole idea.
Who writes it
Everything here is written by Sawyer V., an enthusiast who is genuinely into this — I read the manuals, compile the published specs, and do the math. I have not tested these products, and I say so on every page.
That is the whole biography, and the omissions in it are deliberate. There is no electrician’s license here, no certification, no test lab, no panel of experts, and no team of reviewers. Claiming any of those would be the exact failure this site exists to avoid — and in a category that touches household electrical circuits, a reader who believed we were electricians might take a load figure as an inspection. It is not one.
What you can expect from a page here
- The number in the first screen. If the page is called “how many amps do Christmas lights use,” the answer is in the opening paragraph, not after nine hundred words of preamble.
- A real data table. Every product and ledger page carries one, and every table names its source.
- The arithmetic, printed. Not described — printed, line by line, so you can check it or substitute your own inputs.
- Stated assumptions. Any cost figure names its kilowatt-hour rate and its hours per night. Any capacity figure names the spacing it assumes.
- “Not published by the manufacturer” wherever a spec is missing, in those words, instead of an estimate dressed up as a fact.
- At least one “skip this” pick on every ranking. A list where everything is recommended is an advertisement.
What you will not find
No fabricated reviews, no invented star ratings, no testimonials, no “in our testing” sentences, and no urgency. We are not running a sale; we are showing a number.
There is also no Review or AggregateRating structured data anywhere on this site. The visible scores are our editorial weighting of published specifications, and marking them up as review ratings would tell search engines we had rated products from first-hand use. We have not.
How it is paid for
Amazon commission on qualifying purchases made through links here. It costs you nothing, it does not change the order of the picks, and where a product is not on Amazon we say so and link to it anyway with no buy button. The full detail is on the affiliate disclosure page, and the method behind every figure is on how we research.
Corrections and contact
If a figure here is wrong, tell us and it gets fixed with a dated note rather than a silent edit. Email info@wreathandwatt.com or use the contact form. That address is the only one this site uses.
Wreath & Watt is a national publisher with no premises, no service area and no storefront, so there is no address to visit and no phone number to call. Email is the whole channel, and it is read.