The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory did a study* of ten homes in California and found that between 5% and 25% of the total electrical demand was to supply equipment that was turned "off" with standby power.
A fellow might buy a fully-loaded K3 with the savings... Ron AC7AC * http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/Reports/45967.pdf. -----Original Message----- > ...I bought a meter a while ago that measures the power consumption of > whatever is plugged into it. It's surprising what it costs to run one > computer for a year. Now, even the shack power supply gets turned off > instead of trickle charging the K2. Be grateful you can turn it off! Most things in the USA, if they p;lug in, can't be turned off. They go to "standby" meaning they are still consuming power. Home theater components, PCs, monitors, most devices in the kitchen... so they get an "energy star" award if you can't turn them off, the star telling you how efficient they are! 73, Lyle KK7P _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
