Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast

Post by Lorin » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #162

Panino wrote: post #38

If you're wondering how much energy is consumed by your electronics, a base model kill-a-watt for about $30 will show you watts and cumulative watt-hours. It's a fantastic tool that pays for itself besides giving an eye-opening, interesting experience. You'd be surprised at the things in your house consuming electricity 24/7. Almost everything in my house is either on power strip surge protectors or just unplugged.

I highly recommend the Athom smart home plugs preflashed with tasmota. No flipping cloud. None. Pick them up a fair bit cheaper than $30. And of course can turn them on and off over you local wifi - set timers over your wifi, or via mqtt for the whole smart home thing etc. Point is they just work too if you don't want to do any of that. Plug them in, connect to their builtin wifi ap, read the power usage stats. Good…

Post by phpthrowaway99 » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 6:28 PM UTC

benhurmarcel wrote: post #209

czottmann wrote: post #72

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Not at the current prices for new customers. I'm currently paying 50,07€ct/kWh here in northern Germany. 25W * 8760h * 0,5€ = ~109€ per year. The price hurts, yes, but the waste of power is _criminal_.

I wouldn't count the hours during winter though. It's heating, which you'd pay anyway.

Post by maccard » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

zbrozek wrote: post #222

maccard wrote: post #101

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Thays 50x the base load of my house, and would cost thousands a year to run idle. With current costs in the UK, close to $10,000

You don't have a refrigerator?

Post by chalupa-man » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

eternityforest wrote: post #218

How is that even possible? A tablet at full power doesn't use that much. That's way above and beyond what you'd expect even a laptop(Or at least one I've owned recently) to do. I don't even think something like a RasPi 4 physically can pull that much. Is this chip shortage related and they just couldn't find some regulator or something and used linear?

Post by brnt » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:28 AM UTC

RL_Quine wrote: post #246

brnt wrote: post #110

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Amazing. That's about a factor 4 more than average total consumption around here. Which I am beating by almost a factor 2.

I’m not sure how people run such low power usages honestly. My desktop is about 700W when playing games alone.