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M.Blackmore wrote: > I used to leave the server on until I got a Kill-a-Watt meter and ran > about the house testing consumption and cost of various items - it was a > real eye opener and we reduced our electricity consumption to one third > of its previous rate by simple expedient of switching stuff off and > taking oodles of stuff off standby by deadswitching it, often using > blocks of extension leads to join all related items up onto a single > above skirting board level switch. I use a few of the "intelligent" 13A power controllers where one master socket turns off a couple of slave sockets when the master is powered off -- so the kids' PC powers off the monitor etc., and so the av amp powers off the television, dvd player etc. > If I was rewiring the house again we'd be putting all electric switches > at dado rail height and damn the appearances! If you were re-wiring the house, building regs would pretty much demand that anyhow. ISTR the current requirement is that all sockets be accessible to someone in a wheelchair and as such have to be fairly high up on the wall. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html