My name is Justin Luyt. I started this blog in the midst of out 2008/9 recession with the purpose of helping others reduce their monthly expenses. All around our homes we have a multitude of devices, tapping into your bank account every day.Tonight I want to share with you all energy saving factors I found on my Home Theater Receiver. The receiver I have is a KLH R5100 Receiver. It has been a wonderful entry-level receiver that has served me well. Being a physically big unit, I thought it will be drawing lots of electricity – surprise.
I measured it tonight and I was so surprised. Firstly, it has a top-notch design because this Home Theater Receiver has ZERO Ghosted Load. Meaning when this Home Theater Receiver is set to standby, it draws virtually no electricity. This characteristic makes our KLH R5100 Receiver a great candidate to be the control unit when we install a Smart Strip.
The KLH R5100 Receiver draws 30 Watts when switched on. With an electricity rate of 9.99c per kWh, if it runs 24/7 it will cost you $ 25.66 per year. For most of us your receiver should only be switched on when viewing TV, which around here is about 4-hours per day average. Based on our 4-hour per day calculation, it cost a mere $4.28 per year pulling a total of 43 Watts per year on this basis.
I cannot find any ways to improve on the usage of this receiver since it is indeed switched off when TV is not watched and since it has no Ghost Load, it will be great to use it on a Smart Strip as the control device.
Look out for my review on Microsoft Holm, coming soon!
Aug 6, 2009 at 05:46:34
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