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appliances on standby
I've finally got around to doing something that I should have done a year ago. We've long had the habit of switching the TV off at the wall rather than leaving it on standby, though we have to confess that this virtue originated with the TV having a dodgy capacitor and refusing to work most of the time unless it was switched off at the socket. (using my handy gadget for measuring electicity, I discover that this has probably saved us around a fiver a year).
What we did today was to rearrange plugs and sockets so that other things like the stereo and the DVD player are now easy to switch off at the wall (they're all on the same on the same socket bar now)
In the case of the DVD player, this is saving very little electriticy as it uses next to nothing on standby. However, I was horrified when I measured the stereo. It was drawing 30 watts! That may not sound like much, but taken over a year that's about £26.
How to help the planet and save cash at the same time.
(Sadly, we can't do similar with the satellite box as that has to remain on)
What we did today was to rearrange plugs and sockets so that other things like the stereo and the DVD player are now easy to switch off at the wall (they're all on the same on the same socket bar now)
In the case of the DVD player, this is saving very little electriticy as it uses next to nothing on standby. However, I was horrified when I measured the stereo. It was drawing 30 watts! That may not sound like much, but taken over a year that's about £26.
How to help the planet and save cash at the same time.
(Sadly, we can't do similar with the satellite box as that has to remain on)
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