Standby shutdown - sense or nonsense?

If the standby mode is deactivated for only 2/3 of the time, the savings naturally reduce to 7.30 euros for our exemplary 5 devices.

If I spend 100 euros just for the switch and 30 euros in interest, it will pay off after 18 years. Great. The main thing is that the interest rates don't rise at the follow-up financing and that the device NEVER breaks down.

Conclusion: Not financially worthwhile. As a technical gimmick, if you like, you can do it. Category [Solarakku].

As so often, it depends on the individual case. If that is the case for you, then that's great... then you can leave everything as it is.

For me, disabling per socket only cost about 20 euros, so the thing pays off after just a few years.

And if you simply use a power strip like many here in the forum, then the money spent on it is recouped in a short time.

As you can see, there isn't just one case where it is worthwhile and also not one where it is not worthwhile at all...

You should rather think about whether you even need all those devices.

In our living room, the "multimedia equipment" consists only of a TV with an integrated receiver, to which a hard drive is connected, and a Blu-ray player. The player is only plugged in when I need it.
When I put the TV on standby, the hard drive also turns off, unless a recording is running.

I simply don't have PlayStations, Wiis, X-Boxes, amplifiers, and whatever else you (supposedly) need. That's why these devices don't consume any power for me :)

Sometimes a simple master-slave power strip is enough. :)

The basic idea is certainly understandable. However, the effort is not in any reasonable relation. Even the €30 power strip takes years (certainly not months, unless the devices are all from the last millennium) to pay off. So far, we have calculated the best case, i.e., saving standby power if the device is in standby mode all year round. Of course, times of active use and times when the plug was not pulled out are deducted from this.

But we will just go around in circles again. It is like the all-off switch at the front door in the KNX discussion. In my opinion, an absolute gimmick without a business case, but everyone should be happy in their own way.

It is also about the fact that you do not have to turn off all devices. The large amplifier, for example, does not go into standby mode by itself.