I agree, that really does make good common sense.
I would also suggest dropping Neil a quick email and asking nicely if
you can borrow his power meter to see just how much power the printer is
drawing in standby.
You've prompted me to do the same thing with our printers. I like to
have a printer going all day so I don't have to wait around for warm up
but I'm becoming very aware of the cost to run it.
Cheers Don
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Thu 22 Mar 2007 07:29:06 NZST +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Ah well how about a relay/contactor, and using one of the spare pairs in the
cat5 to supply some current to it. The switch in the house being operated by
one of your 10 digits.
Now *that* is what I would call an ingenious number 8 solution!
Just make sure you don't have an ethernet switch in between the
digit-operated switch and the printer.
Volker
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