Specs on my Sony CRT (30XS955) say .5w on standby
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Richard Harison
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| On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:10:39 -0400 Agent_C
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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.
|
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|| 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.
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| 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?
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