Electricity Consumption of Standby Devices and Impact of Daily Power Disconnection

The laptop has a power supply that is always on. Same with the charger.

And I don't turn off . Someone once told me that turning off the TV every time, for example, quickly hurts him, so I stick to this rule. And I don't count how much I save and how much I don't - at least for now I can afford such "prodigality" . And I do not believe in the increased consumption of CO2 in this way either - x times more CO2 and other gases poisonous to our atmosphere were released during this year's volcanic eruption in Iceland and are still being released, e.g. during forest fires, etc. I doubt we'd have anything to do with it.

Gentlemen, the voice of "lajkonik"
depending on the installation (concentration of devices) we have at home or in the company, the task of disconnecting the receivers is easy or very easy and I consider it illogical to negate the sense of the above. Even if we only save PLN 100 a year - it's worth taking this cost out of the chimney!
...and I'm not talking about these stories of "media ecologists", but about simply poisoning the environment by minerals and "minings" - for several decades of development of nuclear energy, no country/company, in other words NO ONE in real life, has safely disposed of radioactive waste .
As for the stories about devices demolished by disconnecting from the mains - I remind you that electrical devices have switches as standard ... why? The only equipment that failed me in recent years was a 20-year-old TV set from the Eastern Bloc, and I turn off and on most of the rtv equipment every day. I recommend the devices of the Polish manufacturer on L.

Hello.

Saved money speaks to me.

...and sockets with an Offline switch.

(they are on A... ...auctions)

Regards
S.J

The ease of use appeals to me (one switch for the computer, equalizer, amplifier, set-top box and TV) The greenhouse effect, etc. are (unfortunately, or fortunately) in second place ...

I turn it off every evening and turn it on when I get home from work. I use a "strip" with a switch. And I only turn off the appliances that are in my room, because I don't like it when some transformer hums or the converter squeaks at night.

Hello,


I've been thinking about this lately,
I did a cost analysis on my blog:
http://egzergia.blogspot.com/
I encourage you to read it

I have read and cannot agree with one that the Commodore 64 is a "computer" This is a computer with a capital K :)

And seriously, you're right. The standby of the TV or the watch in the microwave is ok, because it does not consume much, as much as it needs. My blood pours over the TV set-top box. I have an ADB product from Multimedia and it draws 20W continuously, regardless of whether it is on or off. As far as I know it's the same in N. And where is the logic here? Because of such quacks who do such things, I am sometimes in favor of regulating it by law, because because of their laziness and the desire to save on costs, we have to pay for it.

These decoders probably have their HDD turned on all the time, hence the power consumption (and noise!). Couldn't the drive turn on only when needed? Although it's probably because of VOD.

Hello
You can read about the savings at www.offline.net.pl in the "About the Product" tab.

Let's turn off unnecessary devices and "stand by"!

Regards

And I would like to ask about the impact of disconnecting devices from the network on their lifespan - is it better to keep it connected all the time or completely turned off and turned on 3-4 times a week? Disconnecting from the mains is more harmful to devices that have a power supply on the converter, and how about those that have an ordinary transformer - switching on can also have an adverse effect on them?

Gentlemen. With decoders, it is so that during STBY only the display is blank and EURO/HDMI/COMPONENT is disconnected. The rest of the electronics must work all the time to be able to update automatically after the supposed sleep. It is and will be, unfortunately, all the time. VOD, by the way, they are on the server and there is only the purchased movie on the disk, here the movies still do not rip to the disk. You just order - through the HFC network you get a movie and watch it for the time you ordered. Uploading such a video over the network is very fast. But the fact is that these set-top boxes are not a successful design (both for one supplier and for the other). Regards

That's right, these decoders are sloppy. There are many set-top boxes on the market for PLN 300 - 400, which in standby consume about 1W of energy. You can? You can. And these are decoders that can record to an external drive, which they turn on themselves if necessary.
And those from Multimedia or N? They are on all the time because it is easier and cheaper, and the customer will pay for electricity anyway. Typical approach.