Re: Power consumption on Standby

Andy Burns wrote:
On 06/08/2008 20:21, Adrian C wrote:

If your measuring device checks out correctly with a filament light bulb

An incandescent light bulb is a resistive load, a TV won't be.

If the measuring device doesn't apply power factor correction, 20 watts is a bit of an over read, I think? Hence my use of the word 'magnitude'

There probably is something else wrong with it.

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Adrian C
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