leaving tv and sky box on standby

[pano amo]

This is an on-going 'difference of opinion' with me and the missus. I leave the two devices on standby when I go to bed while she insists we power them down.
The key question is: how much electricty in monetary terms are these units gobbling up while we leave them in this state? When my sky box failed last year, the sky engineer who came to fix it said they recommend their boxes are not powered down but left on standby. Are we talking just a few pence an hour?

[pano amo]

BigBazza said:

Doesn't seem a lot and i'm anything BUT an eco warrior - add it up over a year, say its on standy 20hrs a day while you are asleep/at work and at 2p/h its £145 a year.

All adds up!

[pano amo]

davido140 said:

BigBazza said:

Roughly 2 or 3p an hour max.

That much?

I've recently taken to turning everything off except sky+ (so it can record stuff!)

So thats Amp, Xbox, PS3, Wii, Active Sub, TV,

Even at a penny an hour each thats £36 per month (20 hours a day standby!!)

Golly.

hehe, yea I kinda need to give the full story. I got an amp, a wii and a ps/3 running too although I do power-off the ps3 and amp and leave the wii on standby.