Re: OT: tvs and fires - article

CJT wrote: 
Ken Weitzel wrote:



Tom MacIntyre wrote:



What I find hard to believe is this whole thing, based on isolated
incidents. A huge percentage of all homes in North America at any
given time have one or more TV's in standby mode...how many fires are
we expecting?

Tom 



Hi Tom...

What floors me is how incredibly lazy we've somehow become. :)

Apparently we can't once or twice a day walk all the way to the
set and turn on a power button.  Too far, too hard.  Can't go
any further than the remote.  Or maybe can't wait the extra one or
two seconds :)

What ever happened to the olden days "holiday" switch?

And has anyone considered the tremendous energy waste of millions
of sets each needlessly burning up 10 or 20 watts?



Yes.  It's a LOT of energy.




Granted the old "instant on" tube sets used a comparatively large amount of power in standby, but has anyone measured the the standby draw of a modern set? Now I may just have to do that, I suspect it takes very little power to keep the microcontroller running, obviously some use a better design than others though.
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