Killing off standby power in your gadgets is fast becoming big business. I personally already use one of those Belkin power boards for my home theatre setup, but this looks like it would do a pretty good job as well. The RC Mains Power Saver automatically detects if your gadget is in standby mode and will automagically kill the power to it after a short delay.
And where does the RC element come into it? Why, when you want to turn your device back on – simply switch the adapter on with your regular TV remote – the adapter learns the appropriate signal during the setup process.
Not too sure how this would work with devices that don’t work with an IR remote control – like a printer or your PS3, for example – but considering its smallish footprint and the $50 asking price from Latestbuy, that might not be an issue.
matt
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 9:42 AMbut then how do you kill it’s standby power usage?
Jeff
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 9:56 AMSounds like a great idea,
but TV use really small amount of power in stand by mode so using this thing instead will defeat the purpose?
Unless it uses less power.
I’m no expert, just assuming.
Mike Biggs
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:32 AMI think the issue isnt the LOW power draw of standby, its the fact that there is SOME. I know my setup could use this to lower my power usage. TVs, PS3, Media PC, set-top box, Wii, Amp, speakers, DVD player, modems etc etc…all those little LED lights left on for 9 hours each and every night indicating standby mode all add up.
Go to your power meter in the middle of the night and watch the little wheel spinning, even though your house is black and quiet…thats $$$ spinning away. How much I dont know, but I’m going to investimagate one of these.
lilly
Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 5:00 PMi have an assignment in science about standby power and i need four pages of research. any information would be helpful! especially stand by power saving devices or statistics from australia.