Energy efficient TV?

mardatha

How can I find the most energy efficient TV ? ie the one that costs the least to run per year ? Is there a site where I can compare them all?

tonyh66

its the one thats on the least amount of time................
otherwise any with an A rating for energy usage will do, you'd be splitting hairs trying to compare tv's in this group.

paulmapp8306

Indeed. Ultimately, if TV A costs £20 less per year to run than TV B- but TV A is £300 more expensive than TV B - which is the most economical?

Might seem excessive - but the most economical TVs also tend to be the most expensive. its generally because better componants are used which are both more economical and most expensive.

You may find a nugget somewhere that is both economical and cheap - but not necessarily.

HappyMJ

LED TV's are cheapest to run but they are the most expensive to buy. You need to weigh up how much you will use a TV as opposed to the running costs and the loss or cost of the money used to pay for the telly. A TV which is free but uses twice as much as one costing £1,000. Which one? I'll go for the freebie.

mardatha

I dont mind paying more for one that uses less, think that makes sense. It's quite a complicated thing when you get into it eh!

dogmaryxx

Running costs assume the TV is on for 1,742 hrs a year and in standby mode for 4,211 hours with a standby consumption of 0.4 watts with an electricity tariff of 14.51p / kWh.



http://www.johnlewis.com/Magazine/Feature.aspx?Id=1124

Kernel_Sanders

HappyMJ wrote: »

LED TV's are cheapest to run but they are the most expensive to buy.

No they're not! I bought one for £50 from Asda a few months ago. It consumes a remarkable 16W.

tonyh66

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Running costs assume the TV is on for 1,742 hrs a year and in standby mode for 4,211 hours with a standby consumption of 0.4 watts with an electricity tariff of 14.51p / kWh.



http://www.johnlewis.com/Magazine/Feature.aspx?Id=1124

I guess your example assumes the TV is totally switched off for 2812 hours per year mine sits on standby when its not on.

tonyh66

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

No they're not! I bought one for £50 from Asda a few months ago. It consumes a remarkable 16W.

and thats a meaningless figure without telling us the size and if its 16W/hr or 16W over an infinitive length of time, which would be really energy efficient

malc_b

All these figures usual ignore the fact that any extra power is not necessarily a waste. It heats the house and in uk we heat at least 6 months of the year if not more. So you can knock the difference down by 25% (assuming heating is 50% cost of full rate electric).

mardatha

Lost now - but we don't use electric for heating we use coal- we don't use much elect at all, currently under £5 a week. We're on a mission to cut down elect consumpt as much as possible for our old age
and are replacing all our appliances one at a time.