Lowest Always-On Wattage?

Does all that stuff have to be on 24/7? Does the QNAP have an auto sleep function, my NAS’s do. We put everything on CE SmartPlugs which we can voice control through GH. You can also schedule each plug independently so maybe somethings don’t need to be on in the middle of the night?

We put our big ass TV with sub and bar on a SmartPlug, it uses 225W when it was on, and 55W off. Now when we turn it off via SmartPlug it draws 0W for the 20 hrs a day it’s not on.

Same with a color laser printer. Use it a couple times a day for 30 seconds, but it is on 24/7 burning 50W in standby. Put in on a SmartPlug, turn it on twice a day, do my printing, shutoff via printer power button, cut power to it.

Have to change your way of thinking too. Everything today is designed for instant gratification, to be instant-on, to be at our fingertips. Putting traditional hard switch electrical devices on voice command added an extra step, but changed the way we interact with them.

Between changing our habits, SmartPlugging virtually every device in our home, and changing to 100% LED lighting we have dropped our daily power usage from about 28 kWH/day to 12 kWH.

Sorry about being long winded!

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