In article , metspitzer wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:41:55 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

On 6/1/2008 5:23 PM Rod Speed spake thus:

And if you care about what a wall wart uses, the only thing that
makes any sense at all is to replace the ones that are the dinosaur
transformer based wall warts with proper modern switch mode wall
warts instead and save virtually all of the power those use, and have
the convenience of being able to leave them plugged in all the time.

Well, yes, that would be an improvement.

One suggestion made earlier in this group was to plug your charging
devices into a power strip that has an on/off switch. (forget about
the fact that the plugs are not designed to only take up one outlet
space)

That is changing, especially notably with cell phone chargers. Notably,
the slim cell phone chargers have switchmode circuitry. The smallest 60
Hz iron core transformers I have seen that can put out a couple watts
won't fit in those.

Every little bit does help, and it is the right thing to do.

- Don Klipstein )