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That's a crazy amount of standby power consumption! That's more than my laptop under light usage and way more than a mobile phone even under heavy usage. I real

That's a crazy amount of standby power consumption! That's more than my laptop under light usage and way more than a mobile phone even under heavy usage. I really hope this isn't common. As an aside, WA is awesome at units. You can simplify to: 10W years * 0.3 €/kwh.

Jaxan 5y ago
So I have the same (9W). It is crazy, especially since the usage when the TV is on is only 35W.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 5y ago
  Many TV's have a small ARM computer running constantly in the background, regardless if the screen is on or not.
cesarb 5y ago
> That's more than my laptop under light usage and way more than a mobile phone even under heavy usage. Battery-powered devices (which include both laptops and mobile phones) are notoriously frugal with their power usage, since they have a severely limited power budget (even the biggest laptop batteries are limited to 100Wh because of the FAA, and mobile phone batteries are also limited by their physical size), and they are also compared on that power usage (you see on review sites things like "with the screen at half brightness and playing a nice movie, the battery lasted N hours..."). Wall-powered devices, on the other hand, are much less limited; the biggest restriction would be in places with 10A wall plugs at 110V (that's the case where I live, though "110V" is what the public calls it but it's actually 127V), and that's already over 1kW with no time limit. So wall-powered devices tend to not optimize their power usage (standby or otherwise) as much as battery-powered devices.
electroly 5y ago
Google can do it, too; try it with your example query. I find that more convenient because I can just type it into the address bar and it loads lightning fast, whereas WA is kinda slow. For simple math and unit conversions like this, WA's full power isn't necessary.

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That's a crazy amount of standby power consumption! That's more than my laptop under light usage and way more than a mobile phone even under heavy usage. I real

by ben-schaaf 5y ago

Jaxan 5y ago
So I have the same (9W). It is crazy, especially since the usage when the TV is on is only 35W.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 5y ago
  Many TV's have a small ARM computer running constantly in the background, regardless if the screen is on or not.
cesarb 5y ago
> That's more than my laptop under light usage and way more than a mobile phone even under heavy usage. Battery-powered devices (which include both laptops and mobile phones) are notoriously frugal with their power usage, since they have a severely limited power budget (even the biggest laptop batteries are limited to 100Wh because of the FAA, and mobile phone batteries are also limited by their physical size), and they are also compared on that power usage (you see on review sites things like "with the screen at half brightness and playing a nice movie, the battery lasted N hours..."). Wall-powered devices, on the other hand, are much less limited; the biggest restriction would be in places with 10A wall plugs at 110V (that's the case where I live, though "110V" is what the public calls it but it's actually 127V), and that's already over 1kW with no time limit. So wall-powered devices tend to not optimize their power usage (standby or otherwise) as much as battery-powered devices.
electroly 5y ago
Google can do it, too; try it with your example query. I find that more convenient because I can just type it into the address bar and it loads lightning fast, whereas WA is kinda slow. For simple math and unit conversions like this, WA's full power isn't necessary.