Standby Power Consumption

rhino2k

That seems a lot! I’m sitting here thinking a few new TVs, telephones, router and maybe 2 x iPhones & 2 iPads should be a max of 50w draw? Regular phone chargers are only 5w iirc?
And even then they would not be using much once the devices are charged?

ChuckMountain

Yep that sounds fair enough, I probably forgot to say I have a rack with a lot of kit in it that is on 24/7 .  Don't think my ups is particularly efficient as it's an older model and might measure it separately at some point to confirm.  Before I started trying to power stuff down etc when not needed it was more like 750w ...

rhino2k

Did you work out the hourly standby cost @ 750w? Must have been quite worrying!

ChuckMountain

Well it's about £1 a watt left on 24/7 so about £750 a year ... Or 8.6p an hour which doesn't actually sound that bad when you look at the latter figure ....

rhino2k

That’s the scary part, how it adds up!