ᐅ Standby Shutdown – Useful or Pointless?

Alex85 schrieb:
I can read, you just can’t write. Read your paragraph above again; it’s all there in one go.

So you’re saying to save 300 kWh of standby electricity? Sorry, you really need to show the calculations, because frankly, that’s completely unrealistic. No way that’s true.

I definitely wrote it differently than you later reported; please check again. I wrote “can,” not “want” or “do.” 300 kWh per year is less than 40 W standby power, which adds up quickly (for example, my hi-fi rack with everything consumes about 10 W already). Try the test I described in your house. You’ll be surprised. Or go through every room and write down all devices. At least for me, it adds up in the end. Phones, Wi-Fi routers, switches, any music players the kids just plug in, and who knows what else—it accumulates a lot, and there’s potential to optimize since many of these devices aren’t always needed.

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Who wrote what and who interpreted it how does not change the fact that Saruss is right. This applies both to the devices on the LAN and to the fact that standby power consumption adds up.

If you only have one TV in the house, it might not be worthwhile, but when several other devices are added, it starts to make a difference. The additional costs for the option to switch them off are recovered within months.

According to EU guidelines, a device in standby mode may consume a maximum of 0.5 W, and in ready mode—including indicators like LEDs, clocks, etc.—a maximum of 1.0 W.

Since devices are sometimes on, you can expect about 4 or 8 kWh per device, which corresponds roughly to 1 or 2 euros per device.

With 5 devices, you are looking at around 40 kWh or about 10 euros at best. Whether a shutdown device costing 100 euros pays off for that is honestly not important to me...

For convenience reasons alone, the devices remain on. Switching them off completely would really undermine the whole purpose of a remote control…

The EU directive has not been in effect for very long yet. There are also enough exceptions that allow manufacturers to bypass this regulation (many devices can still perform other functions in standby mode...)

Instead of calculating, try measuring. From my own experience at home, I know it is significantly more.

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Well, you now know what to pay attention to when buying new appliances. Standby power consumption is usually indicated.

No matter how you look at it, a significant amount of money is wasted each year without any real benefit.

For example, when I am sleeping, the TV and other devices in the living room and other rooms don’t need to stay on standby waiting for someone to use the remote. Those 7 to 8 hours per day/night can easily be saved.

Also, when you leave the house (because you have to go to work), usually for about 8 hours, the devices can be disconnected from the power supply since no one is home anyway.

So, for about two-thirds of the day, these devices consume a few watts unnecessarily. That doesn’t have to be the case... during the remaining time, when you are at home, the devices can stay plugged in.

Or take the TV in the bedroom as an example: it is usually only on for a few hours in the evening and often it is not a high-end device with extremely low standby power. In this case, it makes sense to have it connected to the power supply only when it is needed.