Electricity Question

[VectraMan]

That must rank as the wrongest wrong thing ever posted on this site.
It's so wrong, I dont even know where to start to rant on about its wrongness

Except for the being right part.

My Dell desktop uses about 1W when "off". Most PCs support stuff like wake on LAN, even though hardly anybody uses it, so most are sitting around with part of the power supply and part of the motherboard still powered even when "off". But I found most of the wasted power from my PC was because I always leave the speakers on.

[escapeUK]

All these little reductions make little difference anyway, save 5% while the provider puts the price up 25% every year.

[Doggy Styles]

If a device is disconnected from an electricity supply it cannot be using any electricity from it. That is a fact.

If any device is still drawing current it is obviously still connected.

As others have said, the on/off switch on a device is not always designed to fully disconnect it.

[Sysman]

TV's on standby, chargers plugged in (but no attached device), fridges purring, plugged in microwave ovens... all take a small amount of charge. Fortunately modern devices take less than the older stuff.

However, 6 LCD screens, 4 Dell servers, x1 I7 CPU Games Machine and x1 Dell workstation make that spinney leccy meter wheel spin so fast you could cut the finest Canadian timber with ease.

Kettles, lights, irons and tumble dryers take a massive hit though.

Way back in the 80s I moved from a flat which only had an immersion heater for hot water, plus an electric cooker to a house with gas everything, yet the leccy bill doubled. When someone suggested the shiny new tumble dryer I stopped using it as a test, but the bills were still higher than the old pad.

The number of lights I had switched on were the culprit. It was a much larger house with an open plan layout, so I'd have a lot more lights on than the old pad, just cos it looked nice. It looked nice from the outside too when lit up, so I'd been leaving them on when I just nipped to the pub for last orders.

It all added up.