Comments on: Vampire Transformer Power Supplies

By: Always On: Hunting, Finding and Saving Electricity (Still!) | Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:29:00 +0000

[...] on” electrical load accounts for about one third of our consumption. Perhaps more vampires? Doesn’t seem plausible.The only way to find out: measure each outlet with a Kill-A-Watt! [...]

By: Not All Are Vampires | What's on?

Not All Are Vampires | What's on? — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:59:22 +0000

[...] good points and was technically accurate. I was most excited that it raised the important issue of vampire transformers. All electronics use transformers; but until recently, most used ones that looked and acted like [...]

By: Top 10 Things We Did To Cut Our Electricity Bill in Half | Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:29:32 +0000

[...] a Smart Strip and move most “vampire transformers” to it, unplug [...]

By: Two More Big Electricity Savings (Thanks, Apple!) | Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:28:30 +0000

[...] when everything is “off”. This is the sum of all of those “standby” modes, vampire transformers, phones, clock, cable box (well, TiVo, actually) … and the whole computer setup. So this [...]

By: Why the iPhone (actually) Matters | Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy

Why the iPhone (actually) Matters | Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:01:27 +0000

[...] consume electricity when not being used, and only a little when it is. I have written about “vampire transformers“, and you can tell if you have one of these energy suckers just by putting your hand on it [...]