Hi
Just a thought If you want an easy way to turn off all your chargers at once
just plug them in to a power bar that has a on/off switch. This way it
makes it easy for you and may be you will save a little power too. Although
most of them use about 0.2 amps so it would take 5 to draw 1 amp. Its worth
it to have your family happy.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: battery charger questions
> Your mother sounds like mine used to be when i was at home...a little
> paranoid about all the wires and things plugged in...i guess if i had snap
> tied all wires together in a neat bundle, plugged everything into power
> bars
> and created a true fire hazard, she probably wouldn't have
> complained...but,
> having all wires separated, and wall warts plugged in as many different
> circuits as possible, it looked, to someone who doesn't know better, like
> it
> could be potential for explosion hi hi.
> I think those chargers when not plugged in take such a minuscule amount of
> power that you would have to have literally hundreds plugged in to even
> register anything on the power bill, and even then, the amount would be
> pennies. Even if they were all in use, the actual drain is pretty low.
> This kind of thinking goes hand in hand with the idea that keeping the
> heat
> off in the winter in your car saves on gas....totally unrelated, but can
> make sense to someone who doesn't know better.
> If she puts up a big fuss, ask her to unplug all her appliances when not
> in
> use, all household consumer electronics have a transformer of some kind in
> them, and are doing the same as your chargers when not actually turned on.
> I found this to be "different" somehow when i was at home lol.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:39 AM
> Subject: battery charger questions
>
>
>> Hi everyone, over the weekend my mother asked me to unplug the various
>> battery chargers I have when they are not charging anything because of
>> the
>> fact that it would waste electricity. The ones I have in use mainly are
>> for the THF6A, and my Trekker GPS and a couple of scanners, and I just
>> keep them plugged into the various power supplies so I know where they
> are
>> all the time, but I didn't think they'd be wasting electricity when not
>> in
>> use? I'm not to worried about it, for now, but if anyone knows for sure
>> let me know, and thanks in advance.
>>
>
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