| [GMCnet] Interesting observation [message #162318] |
Mon, 05 March 2012 22:44  |
Gerald Work
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Registered: June 2010
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After installing some led rope lights to replace older incandescent rope lights I added a power strip to get an on/off switch to control them. When turned off we could still see a bit of light being emitted. Where did that come from? Well, it turns out that the on/off switch on a power strip does not necessarily turn the thing all the way off! On two of the three I measured today when off I could still measure 9 to 11 vac!!!! Does that mean America is wasting 10% of all the power directed through power strips or do I just have the only two that operate that way? I plan to measure a bunch in the next hardware store I go into.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed & hand crafted
in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building
in historic Kerby, OR
Http://jerrywork.com
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