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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:56 PM Original message |
Appliances steal energy when they're off |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm probably dating myself here, but phantom energy users |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The anti-environmentalism of the Reagan years, of course, drove .. |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 08:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Right into collective amnesia. |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ohmic losses in the Primary of step down transformers - even when |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. its not that. its the standby modes, clocks, flashing leds etc... |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 07:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Multimeter |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 07:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Don't forget the hysteresis loss in the core. |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 07:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. You're going to make me get out my Circuits Book |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. I've been saying this for a while, and I'll say it again. |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. Screw that, appliances steal energy when they are ON. |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 03:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Where do you get those numbers |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 04:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I designed a switchmode power supply in college. |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 04:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Parts are Cheap |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Right, but you pay more as the consumer for cheap parts. |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
11. It's "shoo the pigeon, ignore the hog". |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 11:33 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Amen to that n/t |
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garybeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-05 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
13. they're called "phantom loads" |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-05 05:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. or powerbars, or hardwiring the electrical socket to a wall switch. |
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