Comments on: Green Tip Tuesday http://www.dolphinsdock.com/2008/07/15/green-tip-tuesday-7/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:48:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dolphin http://www.dolphinsdock.com/2008/07/15/green-tip-tuesday-7/#comment-950 dolphin Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:21:20 +0000 http://www.dolphinsdock.com/2008/07/15/green-tip-tuesday-7/#comment-950 Well Slarti, if something needs to turn on at a set time while unattended, it may be best to just go ahead and leave it in standby and just unplug everything else (for instance your tv could be unplugged and the DVR would still record). If you did really want to get serious about it though, you could plug your DVR into a plugin timer. They range in cost from $5->$100 but the $5 ones work fine if you want the timer to work on the same schedule every day (I used to use one in college to cut the lights on my fish tank on in the morning and off in the evening). Just set the timer to come on maybe five minutes before your scheduled recording is to start (to give the DVR time to boot up and give it some wiggle room before the start time). The timers of course draw a negligible ghost load themselves, but it's much less than an advanced piece of electronics like a DVR would draw. Well Slarti, if something needs to turn on at a set time while unattended, it may be best to just go ahead and leave it in standby and just unplug everything else (for instance your tv could be unplugged and the DVR would still record).

If you did really want to get serious about it though, you could plug your DVR into a plugin timer. They range in cost from $5->$100 but the $5 ones work fine if you want the timer to work on the same schedule every day (I used to use one in college to cut the lights on my fish tank on in the morning and off in the evening). Just set the timer to come on maybe five minutes before your scheduled recording is to start (to give the DVR time to boot up and give it some wiggle room before the start time). The timers of course draw a negligible ghost load themselves, but it’s much less than an advanced piece of electronics like a DVR would draw.

]]> By: Slartibartfast http://www.dolphinsdock.com/2008/07/15/green-tip-tuesday-7/#comment-949 Slartibartfast Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:53 +0000 http://www.dolphinsdock.com/2008/07/15/green-tip-tuesday-7/#comment-949 If you tell me how to make this work when one of the devices is a DVR, I'd do it. I tried it a few weeks ago and discovered that nothing recorded any more. If you tell me how to make this work when one of the devices is a DVR, I’d do it.

I tried it a few weeks ago and discovered that nothing recorded any more.

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