Although my house has a number of devices which draw a small amount of power when on standby, the effect of these is to add a little bit of warmth to the house. If they weren't doing it then the heating system would have to do it.
Ok, that only applies in the winter, but it does mean that 'wasted power' is only really wasted in the summer. I tried to measure the background consumption of the house, with everything off except those things that are generally on all the time (e.g cordless phones, network router, wireless burglar alarm system, a number of devices that are on standby like the SB). Counting and timing the fine graduations on the wheel in the meter unit suggested that the house was using 150 watts. That seems a bit high for 24x7, maybe the fridge or freezer kicked in for part of the time. -- karma mechanic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ karma mechanic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8868 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
