The REAL costs of living

Lump · 06-12-2004 08:23PM

No an oven heats up over time... a kettle is instant.

AFAIK the reason a cooker cant use a regular plug is that if you have all 4 hobs and both ovens running it'll draw more power.

John....

simu · 06-12-2004 08:27PM

Any idea how much the energy the fan on a laptop mains adapter uses? The annoying thing about them is that they stay on even when your laptop switches itself off.

daveirl · 06-12-2004 08:47PM

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Lump · 06-12-2004 09:07PM

simu wrote:

Any idea how much the energy the fan on a laptop mains adapter uses? The annoying thing about them is that they stay on even when your laptop switches itself off.

Not much... find out the power rating. What kind of a daft laptop do you have that the fan stays on after it's turned off?

John

simu · 06-12-2004 09:09PM

Lump wrote:

Not much... find out the power rating. What kind of a daft laptop do you have that the fan stays on after it's turned off?

John

It's not the laptop's fan but the one in the adapter.

Lump · 06-12-2004 09:11PM

Oh right.... Just plug it out

John

The_Conductor · 07-12-2004 12:34AM

I feel like a spoilsport posting a genuine answer to the guy's question.

Sustainable Energy Ireland do an energy calculator for working out your energy uses- its the closest that you're going to get (without going seriously insane).
It breaks it down into the different areas of the house (and advises on how to save energy- oddly enough!) Recommend you get a calculator with large buttons, it may be helpful after the substance abuse....

http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=556&language_id=1

cormie · 15-12-2004 01:03PM

Also:

Just say a phone charger is plugged into the wall, but not plugged into the phone and therefor, is not charging the phone, is there still electricity being used by it being plugged in? How much?

How much electricity do you think is being used by a portable house phone by it being plugged in all the time?

Would the same amount of electricity be used by a set of speakers if they were plugged in and had the volume up to the max if there was no audio device connected to it as to if there was and audio device connected to it?

thanks.

Lump · 15-12-2004 01:42PM

The phone charge will use power if it's plugged in but not connected... due to the transformer transforming the electricity... even if it's not pwoering anything... the heat given off it caused by electricity....

John

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