"Walt" wrote in message
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Serge Auckland wrote:
"Walt" wrote
As for the power consumption, a receiver at idle uses an insignificant
amount. I wouldn't sweat that either.
A receiver at idle will use something like 6-10 W, which over 1 year is
52kW/h even at the 6 watt level. Not insignificant in my view.
At eight cents a kwh, that's about 4 bucks a year, or about the cost of a
cup of coffee at Starbucks.
We may have different thresholds for insignificant.
If anything sums up the difference between the US and UK attitudes to energy
use it is this.
A couple of years ago, I measured everything I normally left on standby,
including cookers, ovens TV etc but excluding fridges and freezers and had
something in excess of 400 watts, or 3500 kW/h per year. I now turn off or
unplug at least half of what I used just to leave on standby.
Some appliances are energy vampires and consume lots of energy even when
"off". TV's are notorious for this. Definitely turn this stuff off. And
an oven with a standby mode? WTF? Is it hot all the time?
//Walt
No, but the clock/timer is on and consuming power.
S.
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