Night time routine

syklops

NegativeCreep wrote: »

You'd have a heart attack if you came into my room, extension cords plugged into other extension cords plugged into those triple sided sockets. All with their sockets full and I never plug them out :P Two radios, a tv, Laptop, Play Station, Gamecube, alarm clock, two lamps and my phone charger and loads of other things and they never get plugged out. I'm asking to be burned alive in my sleep :L

I was staying with my parents and I was giving out to my dad for switcing off the wireless router at night and he said it was to save energy. :rolleyes:

He nearly had (another) stroke when I logged in remotely to my server at home and ran the command 'uptime'. Fourteen months up.

Then I looked at the specs of the router and did the math on how much energy turning it off at night saved. Not alot.

Jo King

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Responses has been weird so far...



Of course you unplug everything, bar the essentials, at night. Your mate is a fool. There are various good reasons why to unplug everything non-essential people!

- You are wasting electricity... for what? to save yourself 2 seconds to put the plug back in?

- Every product has a shelf-life. It isnt wise to feed something a current 24/7. Not when it doesnt have to.

- Electrical fires happen. If anyone thinks they dont, they need their head checked. Items can become faulty/break down over time with use.

- Certain items use the exact same amount of electricity as when they are on, to when they are off. If memory recalls the ipod docking station was such an item. You could be playing music, you could be charging it or you could just be leaving it plugged in. Doesnt matter. Used the same.

Very unwise. That unplugging at night is a superstition going back to when electricity was first introduced into Irish homes.

Appliances which are not running consume no electricity so no power saving Most appliances these days have switches.

Plugging in an out frequently causes damage to flexes and cables. More fires have been caused by faulty cables and flexes than by leaving appliances plugged in.

If there is a desire to save electricity it should be done by using a switched socket.

smiley_face400

syklops wrote: »

I was staying with my parents and I was giving out to my dad for switcing off the wireless router at night and he said it was to save energy. :rolleyes:

He nearly had (another) stroke when I logged in remotely to my server at home and ran the command 'uptime'. Fourteen months up.

Then I looked at the specs of the router and did the math on how much energy turning it off at night saved. Not alot.

Yep, your basic electricals like your TV, DVD/Blu-ray player, router, Digi box and even your toaster, microwave or CD player emit very little energy when not switched on even if they're on stand-by. And the same way it uses more electricity to turn a computer on then off then on again than to just leave it on all day goes for your Sky/UPC box as they have computer like components in them such as a hard drive to allow you to record.

Plugging out everything when not in use goes back to the late 19th/early 20th century when people thought electricity emitted "vapours" which was then thought was bad for your health

smiley_face400

Also, as Jo King has said. More fires are caused by faulty cables than things being left plugged in. In fact, that's one of the things your trip switch for the electricity is for, if there is a fault with the plug/device then the trip will cut the power which will stop it from sparking and going on fire

Firefox11

downwithpeace wrote: »

I turn off the switches, put out the cat and milk bottle then get locked out by the cat and yell at Wilma.

Nah, mine is more like this.:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q59KXrW0jBQ

shopaholic01

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Responses has been weird so far...



Of course you unplug everything, bar the essentials, at night. Your mate is a fool. There are various good reasons why to unplug everything non-essential people!

- You are wasting electricity... for what? to save yourself 2 seconds to put the plug back in?

- Every product has a shelf-life. It isnt wise to feed something a current 24/7. Not when it doesnt have to.

- Electrical fires happen. If anyone thinks they dont, they need their head checked. Items can become faulty/break down over time with use.

- Certain items use the exact same amount of electricity as when they are on, to when they are off. If memory recalls the ipod docking station was such an item. You could be playing music, you could be charging it or you could just be leaving it plugged in. Doesnt matter. Used the same.

Now I understand why you're afraid of flying! :pac:

opinion guy

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

- Every product has a shelf-life. It isnt wise to feed something a current 24/7. Not when it doesnt have to.

Most hitech products are damaged by plugging them in and out. Everytime you do so there is a spark current which is damaging to tv's computers etc etc. You are not supposed to plug them in and out all the time. Ink jet printers consume lots of ink on start up so you waste loads of ink by plugging them in and out

Mr. CooL ICE

I take tomorrow's food out of the freezer to thaw, pee, brush teeth and turn off the lights. I then spend about 5 mins being OCD-ish ensuring my alarm clock is set properly

Sirsok

My night time routine is to get my earphones,go bed, pornhub, smoke a cigerette , sleep

corktina

theres no need to remove plugs, switch off if you must . We turn nothing off and I lie awake worrying about the 3c a month those little red standby lights are costing me.

ELCBs FTW!

DeltaWhite

I can't sleep unless everything is unplugged, I'm pyrophobic cos I lost a best mate few years ago in a house fire. I've never gotten over it so I think you're right to be cautious OP

Tom_Cruise

This isn't final destination 6: attack of the plugs , you can leave your plugs plugged in and stop worrying.

Sometimes the toaster and the kettle if I think of it which is rarely but nothing else. Feck having to be plugging things back in and its a total waste of time and effort. Also things like the skybox and router need to be plugged it at all times.

I noticed my house mates switch off the cooker all the time when its not in use I find this very strange as we never did that at home, our cookers always have had digital clocks too so switching them off messes up the time and we always used them as our kitchen clock.

kneeler

I remember when electricity was first put in to our house. Plugging anything in and out was such a big ceremony. I think we only had a wireless at first. Everybody would stand around holding their breath as my father put in the plug. Then the radio would come on and everyone would have an inane grin on their face as if they had seen magic. When the radio was over there would be another big ceremony removing the plug and moving it far away from the socket. there would then be a warning about not putting your fingers anywhere near the holse in the socket. At the end of the Rosary we had to say prayers for the electricity.

scamalert

kneeler wrote: »

I remember when electricity was first put in to our house. Plugging anything in and out was such a big ceremony. I think we only had a wireless at first. Everybody would stand around holding their breath as my father put in the plug. Then the radio would come on and everyone would have an inane grin on their face as if they had seen magic. When the radio was over there would be another big ceremony removing the plug and moving it far away from the socket. there would then be a warning about not putting your fingers anywhere near the holse in the socket. At the end of the Rosary we had to say prayers for the electricity.

OP must be still living in that age
but srly if your that paranoid why not buy them fire alarms with carbon monoxide detection stuff,the bepping sound will wake you up if your in blazes :rolleyes:.

humbert

scamalert wrote: »

OP must be still living in that age
but srly if your that paranoid why not buy them fire alarms with carbon monoxide detection stuff,the bepping sound will wake you up if your in blazes :rolleyes:.

Yes, but by that stage it would be much more difficult to go around unplugging everything.

holystungun9

Fire is no joke...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFDQolLGhfg

syklops

B.A._Baracus wrote:

- Every product has a shelf-life. It isnt wise to feed something a current 24/7. Not when it doesnt have to.

Actually the opposite is true. I've worked on servers that have had an uptime of more than five years, and something went wrong on them when it was switched off to add something.

The lights in data centre server rooms are always left on. Constantly turning them on and off shortens the life time of the bulb and those things are expensive.

I could go on but I won't.

tomboylady

The only things I leave plugged in are the fridge/freezer and my alarm clock. Everything else gets unplugged as soon as I'm done with it. I couldn't sleep if something was unnecessarily plugged in. Weird, yes.

The only thing I don't leave plugged in is an ancient space heater I sort of inherited. I've no idea how old it is but I'm very suspicious of the enormous cable and the oddly shaped black plug. I could just buy a new one, but I'm strangely attached to that one. Not only would I never leave it plugged in, I'd never leave it unattended while it's on.

Other than that, I plug nothing out. Although I might flick a socket switch off at Xmas if there's an extension lead full of fairy lights plugged into it. I'm paranoid about checking the smoke alarm batteries and testing the things weekly and I have a carbon monoxide detector.

SusieBlue

My mother drove me mad when I lived at home.

She wouldn't plug out or turn off one single thing in the whole house, in fact she often went to bed leaving the tv on "for white noise".

But every night at 10pm she would turn off the broadband box because didn't I know that all those scamming criminals hack into broadband boxes throughout the night and use them to extract bank details, did I want her all her money to be wiped or what? This only happens by night though, never by day.

This is the same woman that would have a panic attack if any of us closed the sitting room door because she heard that the heat in the room would suffocate the fish in the fish tank. :pac: