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A Little Power Goes a Long Way

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Did you know that fireflies blinking in the night is a dance the male firefly performs to attract his mate? The female usually sits on a leaf and expresses her interest by flashing back in a specific sequence timed with the flash of the male they chose.

A fun fact about our battery-operated switches: so much effort went into minimizing the power usage of a Q Series switch, that a single firefly resting on a leaf uses the same amount of energy as the switch does, while awaiting your press.

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When a key is pressed triggering a complex series of events activating a luminaire or a shade, the energy used by the switch is about the same amount of energy used by a firefly flashing once while in flight in the dark of night. 

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References: A firefly at rest consumes 37.1 microwatts; a Q series at rest consumes 23 microwatts; a firefly flying and flashing consumes about 863 microwatts; the pressing and releasing of a button consumes 900 microwatts.
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