It’s not uncommon these days to find cordless phones, TV’s, DVR’s, security systems, automated coffee machines and much, much more in all of our houses. When you look around the house, there are a lot of every day things that use copious amounts of electricity. So, just how much electricity are these devices really using, even when they are supposedly turned “off”?
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In the old days when you turned something off, it really turned off. There was no more electrical draw from the wall outlet. But in the new world, turning something “off” doesn’t really mean off. If you turn off your TV by pushing the power button on the remote control, you’re actually putting your TV into Standby Mode. If it were in really turned off such that no electricity flowed through the little internal components, how would the TV detect a signal from your remote control to turn the TV back on? Most TV’s as well as any other device that has a remote control is always using electricity if it’s plugged into an outlet. |
