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Originally Posted by Skybird
People, use multi-plug connectors with additonal switches to make sure your equipment, TV, settop box etc is not running idle in standbye. I use these switches exclusively, and switch on and off computer stuff, TV stuff, HiFi stuff by such switches. Else modem, Tv boxes and some other equipment would consume close to 100 Watts even when being switched of. The technical specifications set by the manufacturers are so totally hilarious. A cable receiver consuming 35 Watt when running - and 35 Watt when being switched off? A Microwave cinsuming 10 Watts for justing sitting dark in the nightly kitchen? HiFi receiver consuming 12 Watt in "off"...?
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Those switches are the only way to go!
If it comes with a remote, it never turns off.
I wish there was a way I could program a switch to automatically turn off all of our computers/TVs/DVR/ and crap like that, and then automatically power them up 30 minutes before we get home.
That way we would have the instant access we like, but still are not throwing money away during the day.