Electricity consumption

Posted by: Kevin-W on 01 October 2004

I've just had a newsletter from my energy supplier talking about saving electricity. It recommends turning off TVs, videos and other appliances that are commonly left on standy.

Being a caring sharing wet liberal pink green type, I was just wondering: how much leccy does leaving your Naim amps in my case a Hi-Cap and 160/62)/Lingo 2 on permanently use up?

Thanks in advance

Kevin (BBC Radio London)

Posted on: 01 October 2004 by Martin Clark

Last time I plugged my olive boxes into a lttle meter the average idle seems to be a shade under 20W a box; say £60 a year for your setup. Not a lot really, just equivalent to four full-price discs.

Posted on: 01 October 2004 by cunningplan

And what about the cumulative effect of lots of little Naim boxes left on 24/7 to more pollutants being spewed out by power stations. Just my green thought for the day

Regards
Clive

Posted on: 01 October 2004 by pingu

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Originally posted by cunningplan:
And what about the cumulative effect of lots of little Naim boxes left on 24/7 to more pollutants being spewed out by power stations. Just my green thought for the day

Regards
Clive

My brother and father are both power station engineers running or did run major power station infrastructure in the UK. In their opinion, its the variations in demand that cause the problems. Even if you don't have background levels of use (eg overnight) they still have to leave some of the power station sets running just in case. Turning off one naim setup will not change the status one jot. If they didn't do this, every time you turned on your TV, Kettle, NAP250 or whatever, you'd have to wait two hours whilst the grid loaded another set at the designated power station.

Think of the grid as being like a set of fly wheels. The instant demand is fed by the existing inertia in the disks, not by burning more coal/oil/gas instantaneously.

cj

Thinking that if all the flashing crossing signals were synchronised in the whole UK, what a pain in the ar$e that would be for the grid.