jmpage2;519899 Wrote: > eap, > > You are just way out in left (right?) field with this one. 99% of the > computers made in the last few years have energy settings that put them > into a hibernate mode after a few minutes of inactivity. > > My iMac hibernates perfectly and when hibernating uses about 3W of > power. It takes only a few seconds to wake up so I'm not in any way > being hobbled by not having it up and running 24/7. > > Even though it's an efficient machine, it still uses about 40W of power > when it's "on" (with display off) vs hibernating. > > So, keeping it on for an extra 16 hours a day would consume roughly > .5kW per year or about 150 killowatts per year. > > This is not a trivial amount of power. > > Multiply this by 1M homes that currently do NOT keep their PC on 24/7 > and you can see that this is a huge increase of WASTED energy for the > application of an ALARM CLOCK!! > > There is no defensible reason that you need a PC on 24/7 for alarms to > work on the SB Radio. Logitech is more than capable of modifying the > software so that the SB Radio takes its time from NTP (so that it is > always accurate) and stores all alarm events completely LOCALLY with no > interaction from SB Server or My Squeeze servers.
40 watts x 16 hours x 365 days = 233.6 KillowattHours (KwH) 233.6 x $.10 (I'll give you 10 cents per KwH which is a lot) = $23.00 per year. I'm not gonna cry over $23.00 a year (do you unplug your a/v receivers and TVs at night)? They eat up electricity doing nothing too. By the way, I think (but I'm not sure) that there is a way to have squeezebox wake up your PC from hibernate mode (if not this firmware, then new firmware). I thought you had it OFF completely. If you hibernate, there might be another way. -- eap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eap's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75541 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
