Standby Saver System???

Cardew

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

176kWh...........mmm..... certainly sounds a lot. Per hour it's 0.02 kWh or 20Wh so is probably a reasonable amount.

A steady 20Watts would be the figure 24/7 i.e. if you never used the computer!

It must include the monitor, and I would not think many people will not bother to switch that off at the monitor when also switching off their PC.

Many people, including myself, have the wireless router/hub on 24/7 as it is used for other purposes than the PC - and this will increasingly become the case for most households.

I am not denying that they have the potential to save a little electricty, but to baldly state they will save over £16 a year is a gross exageration for most people.

For free? obviously get one, but paying for one?????

Bongedone

pmorrisjones wrote: »

I have just picked up a free one from Cornwall Show. Its either that or a light bulb. They are there tonight and tomorrow (at Wadebridge). Its in an eon box

I give them away also. That is how I got mine. Got 400 of them in the office.

penrhyn

Because for the same money I can by a set of three bye bye standby socket and a remote from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bye-Standby-Starter-Kit/dp/B000Q2NO7S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1213086650&sr=8-1

or use the switch on the wall, BTW where do you get the £43 from?

geordie_joe

David_Pollard wrote: »

Cost saving is estimated at £43 worth of electricity per year. Why wouldn't you install it?

1. If I left my TV on 24/7 for a whole year it would not use £43 worth of electricity
2. I was brought up in the era when the last thing you heard from the TV was "don't forget to switch the TV off and unplug it"

40 years later i still switch the TV off at the mains at night. Stopped unplugging it when we had the house rewired with sockets that had switches on.

Same with my computer, but as the sockets are hard to reach I use a 6 way extension screwed to the wall in a very convenient place. One switch turns off the computer and everything connected to it.

Poppycat

Yes I do that too. I have a 6 several 6 way extensions at a cost of £5 at Wilko's that have individual switches so if I want to watch dvd, wii or watch a movies and want surround sound I turn the switch on at the extension. On a night I turn switch off on the wall socket so only tv and pvr are ever on during day.

geordie_joe wrote: »

Same with my computer, but as the sockets are hard to reach I use a 6 way extension screwed to the wall in a very convenient place. One switch turns off the computer and everything connected to it.

penrhyn

On the other hand another of the Dragons Den products may save money on your heating bills.
A good dollop of Reggae Reggae sauce on your food and you'll be reaching to turn down the thermostat.
You may be drinking more water though.

Cardew

David_Pollard wrote: »

The genuine standby saver that originally appeared in Dragon's Den is now on sale in the UK. It is very effective, using the TV's own remote control, and saving 100% of the standby power. Websites carrying it include Betterware, Ebuyer and Amazon, and its own website www.standby-saver.co.uk, tells you more about it. Costs about £21.99 plus postage and packing. There is also a version for computer installations. Cost saving is estimated at £43 worth of electricity per year. Why wouldn't you install it?

That(estimated!!!)£43 is simply a joke!!!

That equates to a 50 Watt used 24/7. So considering your TV etc are use some of the time to achieve that saving you are looking at a standby load of 60-70 Watts.

This is even more ludicrous whe the website itself states:

A: Some devices cannot be switched off completely. A DVD recorder that is recording on a timer must remain on ordinary standby power for the timer to work. Sky+ and Sky HD should also be left on standby for the same reason.

moonrakerz

David_Pollard wrote: »

The genuine standby saver that originally appeared in Dragon's Den is now on sale in the UK. It is very effective, using the TV's own remote control, and saving 100% of the standby power. Websites carrying it include Betterware, Ebuyer and Amazon, and its own website www.standby-saver.co.uk, tells you more about it. Costs about £21.99 plus postage and packing. There is also a version for computer installations. Cost saving is estimated at £43 worth of electricity per year. Why wouldn't you install it?

First post on MSE, praising a commercial product, with a link to a website ............... Hmmmmmm !

A_fiend_for_life

It would certainly be nice and objective if standby-saver could qualify their numbers.

From their website:


'But it was also a great idea it because it has the potential* to save people money!'

*my emphasis


However long it takes to save you money on the device they still say 'potential'.

At £20 plus it would need to save you around 170kWh of electricity. How long would that take?

If being green is your motive you would need to factor in all the energy costs of manufacturing and transport to determine how long it would take to be carbon neutral.

The device by the way has Energy Saving Trust approval because it uses less than 1 watt. There is nothing to say they receive Energy Saving Trust approval for the amount of energy it saves over the product lifetime. Nor does it say in their FAQ section how long it takes to save energy for a return on investment or more importantly a return on the carbon footprint.

A simple calculation would be nice in their FAQ section with typical appliances.

Does anyone know where the device is manufactured?

Linguistic_Chimp

Right people - here's an energy saving question for you all.

In our lounge we have a TV, stereo, Playstation 3, phone and modem all plugged into the same socket using a multiplug. Those plugs and cables are trapped behind the cabinet, under a tangle of wires and cables, connecting up the Surround Sound and making sure we can use the stereo to listen to just music, or use it to hear the TV through or use it to hear the playstation 3 audio through.

Now - all that stuff is switched off (except the modem and phone) as much as possible, but never at the socket/plug, only with the button on the machine - which althought there is no light, I'm pretty sure is standby.

Given that it isn't possible to reach round to switch everything off at the wall/plug, what product can I get to help me turn everything off properly, but ensure that everything does not turn off when the TV is turned off? For example, I want to be able to listen to the stereo even if my TV is off.

NB: this is not primarily about saving money, more about saving energy, but I don't want to pay through the nose as it were.