Switching off at the plug

Memphis said:
It genuinely concerns me that the general populous still believes that their TV sitting on standby is costing them a fortune. Says quite a lot really.
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surely that depends on the TV, I thought old TV's ran at 75% in standby:confused:
 
Jonny69 said:
What are your calculations for this, out of interest?
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Figures for watt usage from here (2006, so seemed about right for "older" tvs) - http://www.sustainable-girton.org.uk/articles/standby.html

Then the calcualtions are here:http://www.ukpower.co.uk/tools/running_costs_electricity

Numbers based on - TV - 1 watt - 744 hours of use (31*24).
Numbers based on - TV - 10 watt - 744 hours of use
This number would actually be lower as this assumes the TV is always on standby. Obviously when its on it would use more juice, but technically that shouldn't be used for this calculation.
 
Not mentioning that the power supply on/off states actually wear them off quicker, so by saving 0.xxx1 pound a month, you might also divide the expected lifetime of your appliance in half...

I've also had that discussion a hundred times with my wife, but it's been driven into her since birth and it's more of a compulsion now than anything logical.
 
Linkex said:
I've just done a bit of research on this - a modern TV that subscribes to the 1 watt policy, assuming a 10 pence per kilowatt unit price, would cost £0.074p per month to run. That is seven point four pence. A month.

Assuming an older TV that sucks up 10 watts on standby, thats still only £0.74 per month. I'm sure as hell not going crawling under my TV to save less than £1.00 a month
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Correct me if I'm wrong.. but @ 10p/kw (although mine is 20p!)

Watts x Hours x Days / 1000 = pence/month
Old: 10 x 24 x 31 / 1000 = 0.744kW/month x 10p = 7.44p/month
New: 1 x 24 x 31 / 1000 = 0.0744kW/month x 10p = 0.744p/month

Factor of 10 out, but still not HUGE amounts.

Personally I have one of those ones that you use your TV remote to switch on and off. Saves about 10-20W as it turns off speakers, TV, PS3, etc.
 
Memphis said:
It genuinely concerns me that the general populous still believes that their TV sitting on standby is costing them a fortune. Says quite a lot really.
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to be fair that's what everyone was told back when people started to care how much power they were using

B@
 
Jonny69 said:
Check the consoles. My colleague at Sony told me some of them sit idle on the internet which can draw a bit more than you think. It's worth getting a cheap power monitor from eBay.
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I believe the Wii has a sleep mode which does this, the 360 and PS3 however do not and only consume a few Watts when in standby/off.

For modern devices, it doesn't tend to be worth it. Household appliances (especially older ones) and heating use far, far more power than electronics/gadgets ever do.
 
I've got a Watson monitor and the first thing we did is get the house down to zero, went around switching everything off, finally got to zero then switched things back on to see how much they cost, leaving TV's DVD Blu Ray and PC monitors on standby didn't register a thing, the fridge and freezer cost quite a lot to keep running, maybe your better off making sure you ave done everything to minimise that rather than worry about standby items that barely use anything.

Are all your lights LED or low energy?
 
Concorde Rules said:
Correct me if I'm wrong.. but @ 10p/kw (although mine is 20p!)

Watts x Hours x Days / 1000 = pence/month
Old: 10 x 24 x 31 / 1000 = 0.744kW/month x 10p = 7.44p/month
New: 1 x 24 x 31 / 1000 = 0.0744kW/month x 10p = 0.744p/month

Factor of 10 out, but still not HUGE amounts.

Personally I have one of those ones that you use your TV remote to switch on and off. Saves about 10-20W as it turns off speakers, TV, PS3, etc.
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I'm afraid your maths is a bit rusty old bean. 10p x 1.000kWh = 10p. 10p x 0.744kWh = 7.4p.
1 pence = 100 watt hours of power, so you can't just shift the decimal over in the power figures :)

Also, the figures are:
10 watt = 7.44 kWh
1 watt = 0.744 kWh

Believe me, if you were right, I'd be on the other side of the fence, £7.50 a month, I would be under the TV :)
 
I turn off everything but the fridges, Sky+ Box (its always recording some Jezzer Kyle rubbish for the wife), and router.

Everything else get turned off at the plug.
 
I remember this from Dragons Den

http://www.thestandbysaver.co.uk/

•Cuts 100% of standby power, and reduces CO2
•Detects when you switch your TV off with the remote control, and cuts all power

•Works with Computers via USB or with TV’s via remote control
•6 Sockets - 4 in standby saver mode, and 2 switchable sockets
•Endorsed and tested by British Gas*, and fully certified by British Standards
•Reduce your electricity bill by upto £43 per unit
•Saves around £43 of wasted electricity per year
•Suitable for businesses and home users

Bla bla ...

I have all my sockets in the house on a remote control so when I leave I just press the kill button and everything bar the fridge goes off.

My old PC (built in 2004) use to suck power when off but still connected to the mains, I checked this with my ******s power meter. New modern one doesnt so much.

I used to leave the PCs on all the time, torrents and what not but they also eat energy so stopped all that shens. Now use a Dell Mini 9 for my torrents and its about as frugile as you can get :D
 
My AV amp would use next to nothing in standby but I have the HDMI connect features turned on so that my TV can set the amp to the correct settings for TV, PS3, radio, etc.
With that turned on it sucks 30w in standby according to the manual.

Luckily I got one of these free from british Gas
Rikki said:
http://www.thestandbysaver.co.uk/
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I wouldn't want to use HDMI connect if I didn't have it.
 
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