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Here's my brother's retort

(No doubt, his cost figures are grossly underexaggerated)

Yeah but I tried that and I must confess to being a inpatient American. When I added the power strip to my digital cable box it shut off just fine, but when I powered it back up the next day it took 20 minutes for the cable box to update the program information and for an agonizing twenty minutes I didn't know what I was watching... Then the saga of power stripping my internet cable modem, which is connected to my wireless router and then connected to my vonage phone modem, they have to be powered up in sequence -or- one or another of the devices doesn't work properly and then I have to reboot my storage array server because it operates on Windows 2000 server and doesn't automatically connect like XP does. This causes another agonizing 20 or so minutes without internet, phone or access to my teraflop of stored data. Then the real offender is the microwave - I hate the blinking "SET TIME" whenever it losses power and setting the time on my microwave makes programming a VCR easy. Next we have my HP laserjet printer, power it down and need to print something... there is nothing fast about the warm up time of a nice laser jet printer, alas another 15 minutes.

So all that to say I leave it all on and use that hour normally spent waiting for programming info to load, frickin' routers to connect, clocks to set and servers to reboot by grabbing a beer and either surfing the net or flipping thru the channel guide to see what I can veg with on TV, well worth the $1.oo a day is costs to leave all that powered up.. My electric bill in my all electric house last month was $83.00.

Just my humble opinion...

kenbro

P.S. Powering down electronic equipment every 12 hours or so causes the internal components to cool to ambient temperature, then power them back up 12 hours later and they rise to a "warm to the touch" operating temp (maybe 110 degrees). This cooling and warming cycle loosens components and shortens the lifespan of said electronic components. Then they are replaced and buried in the dump where they leech toxic chemicals and polute the environment and undermine any green savings in electricity....... Humans leave a footprint on the planet and there's nothing to be done about that, it's life.On Umbra on power strips posted 2 years ago 13 Responses