sky plus

[Money Money Money]

Have had sky plus a while now and just wondering how much power the bloody thing uses, Even when its on standby you can hear the hard drive working?

Anyone every tested it?

I would turn it off at the mains but then it takes 5mins to boot up again!

[oracleslave]

Have had sky plus a while now and just wondering how much power the bloody thing uses, Even when its on standby you can hear the hard drive working?

Anyone every tested it?

I would turn it off at the mains but then it takes 5mins to boot up again!

I have HD and can't hear a thing on my system. Maybe you have a dud?

[voodooflux]

I have HD and can't hear a thing on my system. Maybe you have a dud?

I hear my HD box occasionally - normally when the kids have stacked a load of DVDs/games on top of it and it starts to get hot.

[Money Money Money]

I have HD and can't hear a thing on my system. Maybe you have a dud?

Mine is just plus, not HD. So when you turn if off (stand by) it's silent?

[voodooflux]

Mine is just plus, not HD. So when you turn if off (stand by) it's silent?

Yeah, pretty sure ours is silent when in standby. I'll check later...

[VectraMan]

I hear mine occasionally, but mostly it's silent whether it's doing anything or not. My NAS is worse, the fan seems to run constantly on that.

Of course "standby" might mean it's recording two programmes, so I would imagine most of the device is still active in "standby" and it just switches off the output.

I've got mine resting on some bits of folded up carboard just to increase the air flow underneath, following advice I read somewhere.

[oracleslave]

Mine is just plus, not HD. So when you turn if off (stand by) it's silent?

I turn it off every night and am pretty sure it is silent. Certainly its never been loud enough to bug me.

[DiscoStu]

I turn it off every night and am pretty sure it is silent. Certainly its never been loud enough to bug me.

Mine wasn't until I swapped the drive for a nice noisy 500gb one

[VectraMan]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=504784

One of the many exciting things Santa brought me was a plug in mains power & energy monitor (from maplins), so after worrying about the fridge, freezer, tumble dryer etc I connected it to the sky+ box, (pace V2 with a Samsung 250 & constant running fan).

For those of you who care, here are the results;

in standby it draws 13W / 23VA, PF 0.57.
Normal watching- no recording 20W / 30VA, PF0.67.
Recording 2 watching a third 23W / 34VA, PF0.68
Switching IR on or off made no difference (<0.1W)