Originally Posted by
Zak33
Let's compare this farce to a few things
A) cheap electrical items - anyone who has ever bought cheap pc speakers and put a mains current meter between them and the wall plug will find that in many cases you'd be better buying expensive speaker because the power drain on really cheap power bricks for really cheap speakers is silly and better quality units often use lots less especially when " off"
Same rules for those " touch lamps" with metal bases that have no switch but you touch them instead. Sair bought some home for our bedroom. Being romantic I tested the power draw and they used as much power on as off. One used MORE off than on and I'll never... To this day....know why. But they went back. We found some that use a tiny amountwhen off and I allowed them in my house. But they are silly none the less
B) My parents have a large array of solar PV panels on their house. The electricity company refused to fit a 2 way meter to allow the spare current back into the grid....so it runs into the soil and to earth. Dad still gets paid for it
C) I have two electric drills. One is huge and electricity heavy and one light and is much use as a chocolate fireguard. The light one takes an hour to drill into anything less hard than my hand....the other one uses 6 times the current and drills into anything in 3 seconds
I'm pretty angry about this vacuum cleaner thing you know?