On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:58:56 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

In article ,
"Arfa Daily" writes:
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Before you get paranoid about your TV Standby - look at the spec. Modern
sets are very low - mine is only 0.8 of a watt - not that it gets left on
standby much.


Ha ! Joy ! At last someone who understands the eco bollox about standby
modes, that is continuously thrust at us now ...

It stems from old TV's. If you have a TV well over 10 years old,
it will have a standby of something like 5W - 10W, and depending
on how much you use it, you might find total standby consumption
exceeds the actual viewing consumption. Many countries have had
rules in place for many years now limiting standby power to 1W,
and given TV's are manufactured for use in many different countries,
we all benefit from those rules in any new TV you buy today, even
when we don't actually have such a rule.

We still have problems with items designed for use only in this
(or only a few) countries, which are things like set top boxes.
They often don't significantly reduce consumption in standby
mode.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

It all adds up.
From a list the other week ...
TV: Toshiba 2500TB. 13.4W standby. 75W running. (12 year old).
TV: Panasonic TX-1. 5.8W and 57W (25? years old).
Video recorder: Panasonic. 8.1W and 16.5W (10 years old).
DVD player. Tesco. (8 months old) 8.5W continuous
Freeview box (Asda, 2 months old). 5.5W continuous
Freeview box (Aldi, 'Tevion' 18 months old). 10.3W continuous.
20" 'V7' PC LCD monitor, 21W dim, 42.5W bright.

And the 'pooter?

My PC+19" monitor is 80W on idle; just built a new system for a friend and
it's the same wattage with a 22" screen. 12h a day is near enough 1kWh, 7
days a week, 300 days a year...
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.