Well, Jeff, if it's warm, it is dissipating heat.  And the only way it gets 
heat is from electricity.

Other things which probably waste a bit more are television sets.  Just 
keeping the CRT filaments warm so the picture comes on instantly probably 
consumes five times as much power.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: battery charger questions


>i didn't think it would be that much.  What caught my mother's attention
> was that one of the chargers for the Pro-96, was warm, but I'm not
> worrying or sweating this.
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> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Steve wrote:
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>> They probably do waste electricity, Jeff, probably 5 or ten watts per 
>> hour.
>> With the cost of a kilowatt-hour at around 8 cents, that would mean it
>> probably costs a penny or two a day to run those.
>> Steve
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:39 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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