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Wow! The subject has certainly moved off at a tangent! To conclude it: If you are as mad as a box of frogs true Yorkshireman & want to save yourself a few pence a year - get your screwdriver & pliers out & remove all the neons in your fused spurs. After 10 years (or a bit less due to the...

In response to some of the comments: I have removed the bulbs (& wiring thereto) to save the costs involved in buying new spurs (thanks: ban-all-sheds); No, I don't have any incandescent light bulbs left in the house! At 10p for a low energy bulb why would anybody use incandescent any more...

Thanks flameport. That's the info I was looking for. As electricity prices are rising all the time & fused spurs without neons are only £1.96; I now know it is worth replacing them as the neons are completely unneccessary.

Thank you for your responses. Let me be a little clearer. The neons I am referring to are the little lights actually on the fused spur that shows me when the switch is on & live. If I turn them off the item it is connected to will go off (eg. my combi boiler etc.).

I have a number of fused spurs with neon bulbs lit 24/7. Does anybody have any idea how much they are costing to keep the neon bulbs lit?