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By: david

david — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:49:12 +0000

I am curious now too Phantom…anyone out there have one that knows more than I do about this stuff? Anyone want to send me one?

By: phantomdata

phantomdata — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:45:21 +0000

I would be very curious to see what your kill-a-watt (if you buy one) reads. I’ve been very tempted to purchase one of these myself, but haven’t seen any objective or informed reviews of it.

By: david

david — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:02:01 +0000

Thanks for the math, Phantom, will have to check into that some more!

And LazyMan, we have a powerstrip for our entertainment center as well, but the Tivo and Cable box are plugged in to a different strip that remains on at all times. Everything else – TV, stereo, iPod dock, DVD player, all get switched off on their powerstrip.

I am thinking of getting a Kill-A-Watt to see just how much juice my house uses when I am not using any of it!

By: Lazy Man and Money

Lazy Man and Money — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:49:38 +0000

I didn’t do the math like phantomdata did, but I looked around my house for where I could use this and the answer is… nowhere effectively. I have laptops and use them to some degree most of the day (enough that wouldn’t want to power them down and start them up). Laptops are also very power efficient.

I have an entertainment center and there’s a chance it can be used there, but there would have to be some kind of way to let Tivo do it’s job when not in use, so I guess requires some power applied to it and the cable box at all times. Perhaps it’s still useful there, but it’s going to take quite some time to recover the costs, I think.

By: phantomdata

phantomdata — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:57:54 +0000

Well, I’ve already done the cost computation for an inefficient stand-by device to be 2cents a day.

So if we assume that all devices average out to inefficiency at using 12W of power, I’ve got

computer (12)
+ monitor (12)
+ cell-phone charger (12)
+ wii (12)
+ ds-charger (12)
+ tv (12)
+ ps2 (12)
——-
84Watts
* 24 Hours
——–
2.016 KiloWatt Hours A Day
* 0.08 / KiloWatt Hour
———
0.04 dollars a day

I suck at math, so double check – but that seems pretty low to me. A watt is a pretty small unit of measure, considering that the power company bills you for THOUSANDS of watts per hour.

At one year you would have saved $14.60 (if my numbers are right) by keeping these devices off at all times. You’ve ALMOST recouped your power strip.

By: david

david — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:24:13 +0000

If you add up how many things in your house are plugged in 24/7 and not being used, the numbers add up. Check out http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/transformers.html for way more info then I can explain!