Turing Off Appliances

[andy-hughes]

Would turning my TV and computer off at the wall every night actually save enough money to make it worth the bother?

[douglas9401]

Nope.

[douglas9401]

Unless it's the computer Alan Turning used of course.

[TheWinner]

should that read Alan Turing? Don't undersell him.

[Hopkirk]

If you want to save more electricity, just put a tiny bit less water in the kettle.

[douglas9401]

If you read from the title you might see why, The Winner.

[TheWinner]

Ha, ha, thanks!

[ToraToraTora]

I have one of these it's quite interesting how little and how much different things use:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364113773728

[Hopkirk]

So you have to spend nearly £10 to see how to save pennies? Wouldn't it be easier to accept a free smart meter?

[TheWinner]

TTT that looks good.

[nicebloke1]

Regardless of any saving, I would turn them off anyhow. I had one TV that was just on standby, start smoking, and 1 computer monitor start smoking. I was lucky, I was at home each time. You never think its going to happen to you.

[douglas9401]

Was this before or after the introduction of plain wrappers?

[Barsel]

Nice bloke, no matter how many times you tell them it's not good for them, as soon as your back is turned, they start smoking.

[ToraToraTora]

hoppy "So you have to spend nearly £10 to see how to save pennies? Wouldn't it be easier to accept a free smart meter? " - not it's not compulsory. It's a tool you can use again and again to isolate what an appliance uses. You can't do that easily with a smart meter. It's not going to save anything directly it does not alter what something uses it just helps you understand. I find it very helpful.

[Hopkirk]

Accepted.

Anyway my smart meter has never worked properly. Useless waste of someone's money.

[ToraToraTora]

My smart meter works fine I like it, I also like the octopus app and the device I bought but none of them make any difference directly they just give you information to act on.

[rowanwitch]

It seems it's the standby function that is the problem... Not an advert other comparison sites are available
https://www.confused.com/gas-electricity/guides/standby-energy-vampire-device

[Gill1941]

I was brought up to switch TVs off at the plug.
My father was into TVs from the start and always repaired his own when they had cathode ray tubes and valves. So I do it as a fire prevention really although it does save power as well.

[barry1010]

I turn off my TV with the remote although I have changed the settings to 'eco shutdown' so it takes a little longer to turn on and just turn my monitors off when I go to bed.

If you have an old tv it might save a bit of money to turn it off at the plug but not if it's less than 7 years old.

[barry1010]

I bought the same device some years ago, TTT, and find it very useful, too. One real saving was my printer - I used to switch it off at the plug when I wasn't using it but the meter told me it costs next to nothing to keep it on standby.
The savings comes from the cartridges. I can go weeks without using my printer and the cartridges would dry out, leaving it on standby the printer goes in to a self-care routine a couple of times a week, it takes only a few seconds but stops the cartridges drying out.
Yes, I know I could switch it on and print off a sentence twice a week but I didn't and I know I wouldn't.

[douglas9401]

I've tried phrasing the queston in different ways online but haven't yet found how and why a kettle would use power when not actually called on to boil water by the on-board switch.

Most likely cost myself a fortune Googling. :-)