Check the obvious

Today each of us use to put in Stand-by almost all the devices commonly used at home.
This mechanism doesn't mean that the corresponding device doesn't consume power; the device will consume anyway lower energy, but will do.

Make an experiment: turn off all the devices that normally should stay turned on (like the fridge) and leave in Stand-by all the others (Hi-Fi, TV, DVD Player...).
Now go to your electricity counter and measure the time interval (in seconds) between two flashes of the red led. The electricity counter measure utilized electricity in Kwh. Divide 3600 per time you measured before; this result is the Kw that your devices use for Stand-by. You will be surprised that this number will not be so small as you believed.

To reduce drastically the electricity consumption you should use sockets with a switch that will interrupt the electric circuit between the device plugged into the socket and the electric network. The consumption of that device will be null.


Thanks for reading :-)