Re: No More Standby

me4@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wayne Stuart) writes:
Jochem Huhmann <joh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul Russell <prussell@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I've very suspicious about the math here - even if you have 10 items in
a house at 5W each on standby that's still only 50W. Compared to
fridges/freezers/cookers/heating/lighting and other stuff that's on for
a large percentage of the time this is nothing.

I think the main concern is about devices which don't have any "real"
power-off switch and just go into standby instead while the user thinks
it's really off.

I have to say that I hate that, too. Especially when these devices do
nothing useful when on standby and the only reason for having no off
switch is the marginal cost of it compared to some on-circuit button
which is cheaper because it hasn't to be designed to savely carry and
switch all the amps.

E.g. Sky+ box: 22 watts in use, 13 watts in so called standby.

Everything else I have uses between <1 watt to 4 watts on standby.

What does an average person use in standby (asleep)?

R.
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