Comments on: WHOLE HOUSE OFF SWITCH

By: ross

ross — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:26:34 +0000

There is a Great similar system available at B&Q caled ‘Home Easy’. With a master remote control, anything plugged into Home Easy recievers switches off at the touch of a button. You can aslo control heating and numerous things by SMS text messaging (coming in November)

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:10:45 +0000

an ocd sufferer’s dream! and so cute! my dad would probably add years of his life claimed by worry back on if he had a device like this. now, if only they made a whole-house door locker…

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By: Nik Shah

Nik Shah — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:47:43 +0000

Um… to all of you wondering how this could possibly work, I have a similar system, bought from http://www.greenshop.co.uk/, that took me all of two minutes to set up and install. I have plugged all of my home entertainment devices into one plug and all of my phone chargers, laptop chargers etc into another. There is a remote control by the front door that turns all or some of them off when I leave the house. Simple.

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By: Alexander Rozko

Alexander Rozko — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:06:32 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better if we all had smaller residential spaces and less electricity to turn off? But still an innovative product.

By: Ronald Lindeman

Ronald Lindeman — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:43:47 +0000

What is needed is a Energy Gold Star program to go along with the Energy Star program. This new program would require off switchs on every applience, no extra clocks, the lowest phantom loads.

Right now, unpluging the TV frequently is hard on the TV. They are designed for being plugged in and on to recieve the signal from the remote. Gold Star program would have a real on/off switch and be designed to be shut completely off.

By: Chagri Lama

Chagri Lama — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:55:13 +0000

Hmmm…. Sometimes the most simple solutions only seem simple. In fact, many electrical items in the house we WANT to keep going: freezer, refrigerator, maybe alarm system, maybe garage door opener, some gardening lights, even A/C in some climates, so the hose will not become a raging hell you want to cool down before you can feel you can live in it.

So just flip the main breaker off is not the best way to go.

To re-rig the electrical systems in the house and to work through the engineering to make it so you can turn off the stuff you can turn off is hugely expensive and means that you now have to have two kinds of plugs – “stay powered all the time” and the “may be turned off when I leave” kind.

Sounds like an silly overkill to me.

I liked the idea proposed by several others here: Just turn off the d…ed lights and electricity-sucking items off when not needed. This society has become so lazy that taking the extra two minutes and walk around the house is “just too too much to bear”! Yikes. And the manufacturers jump of this opportunity to suck out more money out of our pockets in the name of “greening”. How greedy they are and how inane have we become.

Onwards!

Chagri Lama

By: eric

eric — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:37:13 +0000

European hotels have had this feature for years
http://www.facilitiesnet.com/productwatch/details.asp?ProductID=1143&count=false

You stick your keycard into the slot when you enter your room to activate the power. When you leave and take your key, everything shuts off. It also helps you remember where you put the key.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:39:13 +0000

Not cost effective for saving any sigificant amount of energy and impractical because of the great number of devices that require a constant power trickle. If you really want to lower home electrical costs, install a hot water timer switch and programmable thermostat.

In the future, rollable insulating walls could be designed to seasonally shield glass windows on east and west facing walls and household external misters could be used to greatly cool reduce desert home cooling costs.

Federal government needs to mandate some standards for low power home delivery of 12v and 5v DC at recepticals throughout the home. The would reduce the large proliferation of external tranformers that is also such a big waste of copper and resources.

Of course most of those low power devices maybe powered wirelessly in the near future, so the point is almost moot.

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By: nim

nim — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:15:45 +0000

Well, it’s a nice looking button that’s for sure. Trouble is what is behind it?

Bryce: would not the wall sockets consume power while listening for the radio signal?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:14:57 +0000

I have stayed in a number of hotels where they have a similar concept. After entering the room you place your key card in a slot which allows you to turn on the power. When you leave the room you take your card and the power shuts off after a few minutes. Simple as that, and it forces everyone to participate since you have to take your card when you leave the room.

By: Lasso

Lasso — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:42:01 +0000

I have a whole house on/off switch in my house. It controls the radio, TV, and every light… I’m not sure what’s new here. (Granted, I had to install Insteon light switches in every socket in my house to make this work, and I don’t have such a cute button.)

By: Electrician

Electrician — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:48:13 +0000

Um…I have heard of this idea before…its called flipping the BREAKER off….come on people, come to your senses.