Any one who has unplugged or cut the power from their cable box with the on off switch will fight tooth and nail to maintain the power down/instant on capability of that system.
I will say however that if you go away on holiday or to visit the in-laws (not a holiday in most cases) you should pull the plug on most devices in your home that demand stand-by power. Except maybe the clocks, which now involves the stove, washer/dryer, and the phone(s). A cry perhaps for a central computer in the home to maintain all settings of all appliances, allowing their power to be cut completely when not being used. Therefor allowing complete restoration when each is re-activated. Providing, of course, that the central computer, and the wireless circuitry such a system would demand, was actually a net savings of power. :-) On Mar 15, 2011, at 14:50 , eckinator wrote: > 2011/3/15 Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com>: >> >> Indeed, it's very easy to oversimplify. The combination of use >> patterns, utility and power consumption during standby must be >> considered. Computers are a case in point, in order to be power >> efficient they need to consume some standby power, in good systems the >> standby power is now in the order of 1W for off and 2W for standby >> (instant on). The fact is that people will be happier to set their >> power saving functionality to power down the system over a shorter >> period of non-activity if the unit will spring back into action at the >> touch of the keyboard or power button. I know I will hit the power >> button now when I walk away from my computer knowing that it will take >> mere seconds to reactivate. This type of system functionality and user >> behaviour will generally promote net savings in energy use over a day, >> so the standby power is worth the expenditure. >> >> Everyone should have or have access to a precision power meter so that >> they can analysis the power consumption of all their electrical >> equipment. Some items are surprisingly efficient others are woeful but >> without a proper means of assessment it's all a big guess. > > good point with regard to more complex systems. different for mere > on/off functionality replaced by standby. NVRAM and EEPROM are cheap > and fast. saving settings shouldn't be such a big whoop. and there are > more energy efficient ways to do that. a simple AA rechargeable. or > you could even go one step further and store settings in the remote > which has a battery anyway. plus if you take into the equation the > additional production footprint for the standby function even a > standby that makes sense otherwise may become totally pointless. > meaning if the energy saved by using standby instead of just letting > the system run is less over the lifetime of the device than the energy > spent to add the standby function... Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
