switching off at night

King_Nothing

macman wrote: »

How much power does the Thomson Plusnet router use on standby? About 10W probably?

I'd say not even a quarter of that personally.

ukcarper

I always turn my stuff off at night and when I’m out. I had a power supply on my PC burst into flames and wouldn’t put it past one of those cheap power supplies that come with routers etc doing the same.

stevemcol

Even if it's only 1watt, that's 20 units a year. Still not that much but when you add up the number of appliances you have on stanby, about a dozen potentially in my house, it starts to mutliply up. If the appliances use a mains adaptor, there are losses there as well.

I was never convinced by the standby argument used by the green agenda but when I did the sums and then thought about multiplying by the houses in the street and the streets in the town etc etc, you're into megawatts of power nationally just to maintain standby electronic appliances.

I do now make the effort to switch things off.

debitcardmayhem

stevemcol wrote: »

Even if it's only 1watt, that's 20 units a year. Still not that much but when you add up the number of appliances you have on stanby, about a dozen potentially in my house, it starts to mutliply up. If the appliances use a mains adaptor, there are losses there as well.

I was never convinced by the standby argument used by the green agenda but when I did the sums and then thought about multiplying by the houses in the street and the streets in the town etc etc, you're into megawatts of power nationally just to maintain standby electronic appliances.

I do now make the effort to switch things off.

Sadly , I cannot put my Pacemaker in standby, and the Docs say never switch it off
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