Vampire power has a scary name (or a name that used to be
associated with scary things instead of melodramatic teen nonsense) because it
fits a scary thought. Vampire power, more commonly referred to as standby power,
is power that things continue to draw even when they are not on. This can add
up to 10% of the power your home uses! What a huge waste of money.
The number one culprit is television. For years it has been
feeding on our brains and now it is feeding on our power when we aren’t even
using it. The fastest way to combat this is with the use of power strips. Plug
in everything to the power strip and turn it of when you aren’t using it. The
only problem with this is reached the strip to turn it off. For a few years
we’ve used the Belkin
Conserve Switch. It is a power strip with a little remote that we keep in
easy reach so there is no digging around for it.
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| Not the one I'm using, but I couldn't dig it out |
And something that I acquired yesterday to help fight
charging power is the Belkin Conserve Socket.
It is a little socket to plug into your outlets that has a timer. After a set
period of time (30 minute, 3 hours, or 6 hours) the socket shuts off the power
coming from the outlet. This is a cool little device you can use for anything
that needs charging but doesn’t need to charge all the time or continue to
charge after it is full. We are using it on one of our phones and will get more
as we get money for them:
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