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I cannot believe how many appliances I go to that are left on all the time. i mean ones with “hard” on off switches and a start button. i nearly always find them on with the start light flashing whatever which means boards/ resistors/ transformers being constantly energised. They go to all this trouble designing AAA rated stuff to use less power then the customers leave them on 24/7.
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It’s just laziness really on the part of customers which, let’s face it with what we see, isn’t exactly a shocker. I’m thinking blocked filters etc.
It would be relatively easy to solve I should think on the part of the manufacturers, whether they’d spend the thrupence ha’penny on doing it though is a whole other ball game.
K.
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I seem to recall on some early Candy machines that you couldn’t push the door release button unless you turned it off with the on/off switch.
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Thing is, those old machines didnt draw any power when left on anyway, aside form maybe a mains on neon, unlike those today…..
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Nope dpm, it’s the magic smoke.
Let me explain…
An electronics engineer once taught me that everything electronic or electrical runs on “magic smoke”. He says that, as soon as something goes wrong, out comes the magic smoke and, ergo, it’s broken. 😉
What was added was that the shock of powering up/powering down encouraged the magic smoke to be making a bid for freedom.
K.
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good one kwatt, i would have to say that i thinka lot of the module failures i see now could well be due to the fact that with no physical make/break on/off switch the modules have power flowing through them 24/7 even when the off button is used, as all it does is send a signal to the mod to put the light on
Isn’t it a good thing Joe Lucas didn’t make washing machines?
But that magic smoke stuff. Isn’t that an isomer of the Dark that Dark-suckers capture?
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dpm wrote
Isn’t that an isomer of the Dark that Dark-suckers capture?
Whoaaa!!! Deeeep 😥Neil the hippy
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all the government talk about not leaving machines on standby and saveing energy must have passed hotpoint etc by look at the WF on off is fed on a ribbon cable and presumably requires a constant power drain . older machines when ther off ther off………………. ah progress
wilf
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