What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
04-12-2007, 14:55
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What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
What Do You do With Your STB At Night When You Go To Bed?
1. Turn Off STB
2. Satndby
3. Nothing
Big Fat 1 here Always turn mine off...
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04-12-2007, 15:00
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Re: Do you Keep your STB on at bedtime
both boxes on 24/7, didnt realise people turned them off 
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04-12-2007, 15:03
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Re: Do you Keep your STB on at bedtime What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
I have a V+ and i have 4 or 5 time let it stay on over night but i cant sleep. I would worry about it starting a fire.
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04-12-2007, 15:23
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
Normally I turn my box off unless I've been out on the town and forget when I come in 
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04-12-2007, 15:27
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
Leave it on Standby.
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04-12-2007, 15:32
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
I generally turn off most of the chargers, set-top boxes and also my modem and router when not in use, all except for a Thompson Freeview box that takes absolutely ages to update when switched back on and my stereo that loses it's clock settings! According to the manual my SKY box consumes 20watts on standby!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6076658.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6075794.stm
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04-12-2007, 15:46
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
I'm a standby man 
I sleep with 2 completely turned on PCs in my room (although the monitors tend to go down into power saving mode)
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04-12-2007, 15:57
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
Most of the time I don't even remember to switch the V+ to standby so it's on. However standby and on will have little effect ont he power consumption since it's only the picture and sound transmit that get cut off. Powering off defeats the object of the V+, in that to record programmes, it needs at least standby.
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04-12-2007, 16:21
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Re: Do you Keep your STB on at bedtime What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
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Originally Posted by JMcB
I have a V+ and i have 4 or 5 time let it stay on over night but i cant sleep. I would worry about it starting a fire.
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A mate of mine had a mobile phone charger catch fire during the night setting fire to surrounding items and that caused about £3000 worth of damage, luckily fire was put out before it caught hold otherwise it could have been a lot worse!
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04-12-2007, 16:22
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Re: Do you Keep your STB on at bedtime What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
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A mate of mine had a mobile phone charger catch fire during the night setting fire to surrounding items and that caused about £3000 worth of damage, luckily fire was put out before it caught hold otherwise it could have been a lot worse!
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I had a Dell Laptop go up in flames on my knees  - luckily managed to throw it outside before causing any damage. Make sure you turn anything off that isn't required to be left on all the time
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04-12-2007, 17:01
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Re: Do you Keep your STB on at bedtime What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
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Originally Posted by superbiatch
.... Make sure you turn anything off that isn't required to be left on all the time |
Good advice, repeated here by the London Fire Brigade: http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/fire_s..._electrics.asp
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At night, turn off and unplug all electrical appliances except those that are meant to be permanently switched on (like videos and fridges).
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04-12-2007, 17:10
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
Always standby when in bed.
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04-12-2007, 17:14
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
Standby
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04-12-2007, 18:19
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
OFF, the items in standby push my leccy bill too high.
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04-12-2007, 18:36
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Re: What Do You do At Night When You Go To Bed
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Originally Posted by Zeph
I'm a standby man
I sleep with 2 completely turned on PCs in my room (although the monitors tend to go down into power saving mode) |
You must have either one briliant low noise PSU or sleep very well at night.
I turn everything off not only to save on electricity but also as it is a fire risk.
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