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Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B) wrote:
alexander.keys1 wrote:
There have been a lot of comments recently about the waste of energy
due to appliances being left on standby, and various gizmo's that are
on offer to turn them off automatically, or otherwise purporting to
save energy. What everybody seems to be forgetting is that an energy-
saving device comes with most UK socket outlets, it's called a
'switch', and when put into the 'off' position, power cosumption is
zero! None of my appliances, including computers, digital TV
receivers, etc. have come to harm through this practice, I always
switch off at the wall, back in the day when there were fewer
appliances this was standard procedure to avoid fire risk.

It also reduces the fire risk when you left home or are sleeping!

why not just throw the main breaker on the consumer unit? You'd save
having to go round turning off all the individual switches and further
reduce the fire risk ;-)

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