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Yeah, I measured the same thing on the cable box, an object which gets about 40 minutes use a day in my household. So when my local utility (UK-owned National
by OliverJones 10y ago
Yeah, I measured the same thing on the cable box, an object which gets about 40 minutes use a day in my household.
So when my local utility (UK-owned National Grid) did a promo for power strips that shut off all the plugs when one plug stops drawing power, I bought one. Works great. Takes about two minutes for the cable box to boot up when I need it.
National Grid lost a 35w base load (24x7 load) by selling me that strip. 35w costs me about $45 a year, and the power strip cost me $15.
- hackuser 10y agoIf my cable box loses power then it loses all its channel guide data, and it takes maybe 15 minutes to reload. It really seems unbelievable. Why isn't the data stored on the local disk? How much data could that be and why does it take more than 10 seconds to download? On my box, it is all text.
- OliverJones 10y agoAgreed. The monopoly regulators who tell the cable companies what to do should give them a limit on the electric load their customer-premises equipment (cable boxes) may draw when idle. It should be no more than dozens of milliwatts. When the load exceeds that, the cost of that electricity to their customers should be refunded via a credit line item in each bill. That will give the cable operators a way to transition to better equipment, and an incentive to get the transition completed. Accountability: there's no other way.