On Wed, 07 May 2008 18:41:06 -0400 RobertVA
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|> On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:10:39 -0400 Agent_C
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|> | On Tue, 06 May 2008 22:32:08 -0600, root <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |>I shut the HDTV off (Philips 42PFL7422D/37) first with the remote,
then with a power strip to eliminate power usage when I'm not using it.
Any drawbacks to this, other than a slower turn on time? I am concerned
about the electronics blowing out because there seems to be some sort of
trauma to the thing when the plug is pulled.
|> |
|> | I'm a firm believer in using electronics the way they were
engineered.
|> | In the case of most all flat panel TV's, that means leaving them
|> | plugged in and using the power button on the unit, or the remote
|> | control to turn them on.
|>
|> I'm a firm believer in not using electronics the way they were
mis-engineered.
|> I'm also a firm believer in using energy efficiently, and not using
when it is
|> not needed.
|>
|>
|> | In the case of my Sony, it avoids having to go through a PITA
|> | initialization routine every time its cold started.
|>
|> In the case of Sony, it is clearly very poorly engineered, especially
at the
|> software level, if it can't complete its bootup and initialization
withn in
|> second or two. It doesn't need to be starting up a web database.
|>
|>
|> | I think FAR too much is made of this tiny trickle of power they
|> | consume while not in use, and it's often grossly overstated. For
|> | example, I read in a brochure from Con Edison, that some appliances
|> | use 'as mush as 25%' of their power while not in use; that's just
|> | patently false and misleading.
|>
|> A few actually do use as much as 25%. Most use about 5% to 10%.
|>
|> A friend of mine with a large CRT-type TV found that his TV was using
65 watts
|> of power when off, and about 350 watts when on.
|>
|> Would you leave a 60-watt lightbulb on that was not lightning up
anything that
|> is used most of the time, just so you'd have the light just a bit
quicker than
|> if you had to turn it on by hand, a few times a day you go into that
room?
|
| If "a bit quicker" meant moving furniture around to reach the outlet to
| plug it in and again to unplug it when I'm through with the lamp I
| would. With some electronics this would instead involve scanning
| channels for a digital tuner, maintaining the contents of a program
| guide, waiting to reload the decryption authorizations for a
| cable/satellite STB, setting a clock or charging an MP3 player.
I've yet to see a lamp, such as a table lamp, where the integrated on/off
switch doesn't really turn it all the way off. So you would not need to
do that with a lamp. Just turn the lamp off and it's off.
FYI, many, but not all, computer PSUs have a switch on the back that
really
turns them off. Does yours? Do you use it when turning your computer
off?
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