Standby power consumption

[PhilP]

Hi Mka,

I've done the sums; to get 1 KiloWatthour you need to have it on stand by for 29.42hours (1000/34)
there are 24x365=8760 hours in a year. Divide that by 29.41 and you will use 298 KWh. Times that by $0.32 (what I pay in Australia) and it will cost you $95.36 per year to have it on stand by all year round. Considering that if you were to run a 'normal' class A amp for an hour a day it would use much, much more so I think it's not a bad deal.

I am a bit surprised about this though. I was under the impression that in Europe all equipment had to have a stand-by power of 1 Watt. I've done a Google search and it seems that not all appliances fall under that regulation yet. When something is networked (routers and the like; Devialet could fall into this category) the rules are a bit loose but they are working on that too. A screen that indicates something (not just a red or green light but an actual screen) also falls under a different rule. Maybe that's why you get the number of your Devialet on your screen when in stand-by.

I hope this calculation helps people understand the real cost of stand-by a bit more.

Maybe there is a confusion between standby consumption and idling consumption. Rufus on the Devialet-chassis-discolorations thread said that for his he measured: "8.5W standby, 28.5W idle or playing through line 1 or phono, 25.6W via AIR on Ethernet."

I also heard the standby power consumption for the D-Premier was supposed to be <5W.