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This way you save some energy and no electric device is on while you sleep or are away, which can cause a fire.

Everything is off.

B&O products are designed to be left in standby, not switched off. For new products, they will ask you for a PIN number if they have been off for more than a certain number of hours before you can use the product fully. So I wouldn't recommend using that.

I switch everything off at the powerpoint when i leave the house, it is totally unessesary for anything to be switched on while i'm not home. Saves energy - the environment in mind. This does no harm to the electronics whatsover.

At the end of the day, you do what ever you feel works best for you. I have disabled the pin protection on my tv's (they are too heavy to steal anyway).

I didn't realise it was possible to disable the PIN protection on all B&O products. In that case it isn't a problem to switch everything off at the mains.

if it will be dormant for 2+ weeks... then off it goes!

otherwise... standby

They are designed to be left on as they use very little power 0.5 watt p/h I think and I believe that turning them on and off at the wall doesn't do the power board much good.

Cheers Nick 

Some of these auto-off systems use around 0.5w when they are running, which is not much different to a modern B&O TV on standby. Obviously, the saving becomes more significant if you have older kit or a lot of peripherals connected.

Just a thought, but most of the wasted energy will be converted to heat which is emitted into the room. In the winter this is likely to contribute to heating the room so if you kill your standby you will make up the shortfall with your home heating energy for at least part of the year. Same goes for low energy light bulbs.

Not putting this as an anti energy saving message. Just pointing out that there is rarely a simple solution to any "green" problem.

Doea the manufacturing energy emission from producing and shipping the standy killer outweigh the savings it will achieve in use? I don't know the answer but maybe someone out there does? And what's the critical standby wattage where it starts to make real sense?

Oh, the 'green issue' ! :-)

Just kidding.  But heating with electricity is by far the most inefficient way to do the job, even if it keeps your B&O a bit closer to the action.  Only 5% of the initial produced electric energy finally reaches the devices in your house.  All the rest is lost in conversion and transport.

The lifecycle analysis of the standbykiller is an other thing, that depends on a lot of parameters.  But let's keep it simple and state that the more standy you can kill, the better for the environment, unless you live in a passive house.  Then maybe electric heating with your B&O can be an option :-) 

PS: I'm fooling around a bit in my house with an energymeter and just discovered that the powersupplies of my 2 printers, 2 external harddisks and 2 routers consumed altogether 60W, day and night, even if all the device are on standby.  That's like keeping an ordinary lightbulb on all the time, just for fun...

And it's true that the old B&O devices consume quite some energy on standby.  My AV 9000 takes 25W on standby.

Kind regards
Joost 

I would recommend never switching off any of your B&O products - the most common time for your equipment to fail is when you return from holiday, re-apply the power and it won't switch on...seen it hundreds of times!

The cost of the power used it standby compared to the repair costs for power application,  stack heavily in favour of  leaving it on.