Bye Bye Standby Starter Kit

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Binding: Electronics Brand: Bye Bye Standby EAN: 5060048480009 Label: iDomus Ltd Manufacturer: iDomus Ltd Model: 5060048480009 Publisher: iDomus Ltd Release Date: 2007-04-29 Studio: iDomus Ltd
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Editorial Reviews: Can we really afford to standbyHouseholds in the UK now spend around 10% of their electricity bill on standby power. The average household has up to 12 gadgets left on standby or charging at any one time (Source: Energy Saving Trust) Bye Bye Standby is a brand new energy saving solution designed to reduce the daily energy consumption of electrical devices. Bye Bye Standby works by completely cutting power to the devices plugged into it when they're not in use, thus saving the power that these devices would otherwise have consumed in Standby Mode. Bye Bye Standby is a new way to save energy, carbon emissions and money. Simply plug your Bye Bye Standby socket into a mains wall socket and plug an electrical appliance directly into it. With the choice of a Bye Bye Standby remote control or simple wall switch (model dependent), you can turn individual or grouped appliances on or off at the push of a button (up to 30 metres away). It will even work through walls and ceilings! Additional Bye Bye Standby sockets, remote controls and switches can be purchased separately to suit your individual needs. Individual Socket Control: Make sure your Bye Bye Standby Remote and your Bye Bye Standby Socket are set to the same House Code and Appliance Number. The House Code refers to the letter (A to H) and the Appliance Number refers to the numeric dial (1 to 8). For example... set your Bye Bye Standby Remote to A and one of your Bye Bye Standby Sockets to A1. Plug your standby appliance into the Bye Bye Standby Socket. Now plug the Bye Bye Standby Socket into a mains wall socket. Note: if you have a 4-way adapter you can control 4 appliances instead of just one from the same socket. You can now switch that appliance on and off wirelessly from up to 30m away at the touch of a button (green buttons on the remote switch ON, grey buttons switch OFF). Page function: when set to Page I your Bye Bye Standby Remote will control appliances which are set to numbers 1-4. If yo
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: BEST ON MARKET Comment: On my third set now. These are fantastic,don't buy any other brand,these are the best and so easy to set up. They are a must for the elderly or disabled. Battery in remote lasted over a year,keep a spare CR2032 battery for when it runs out. Customer Rating: Summary: Superb product!! Good timing too Comment: Just when all my bills are going up, I discovered this to help me save some cash. Obviously I could around switching everything off all the time, but why give myself a bad back doing that, this is a much better idea. Grabbed the other little remote control gadget too and the timer is great! Customer Rating: Summary: An Excellent Product! Comment: For years my PC has been in a corner, all the wires behind the back leg of the corner desk and due to arthritis in the knees I have not been able to get down on the floor to turn the mains off. These plugs arrived the other day and I had them plugged in for me. At the end of night one for the first time in years I turned off my mains plug, no more is my internet on all through the night :) Am back on the site today to order more for the other electrical items I can not reach. Customer Rating: Summary: Great way to save energy! Comment: We got the starter kit to help save money and being fairly lazy could never get round to remembering to switch everything off every time. Now with 1 press of the button we have the TV, DVD, Wii, Digibox, & Video all linked in so it gets properly switched off. Also found it works great for switching off the wifi broadband and laptop power. Customer Rating: Summary: Good product, could be greener Comment: I bought Bye Bye Standby primarily to enable me to switch my broadband router and modem on and off over night. Being in a slightly inaccessible location downstairs, I very rarely bothered to go and switch them off despite the fact that they were burning electricity round the clock. Buying the triple-pack allowed me to also control the computer, monitor and speakers, as well as my TV, set top box and aerial amplifier. Individually, few of these things were drawing much current, but by using a trailing socket and plugging in several devices, a worthwhile saving can be made. I still have to switch my speakers off the old-fashioned way because they make a loud noise when switched on and off at the mains. This can't really be blamed on BB Standby as it is beyond its control, but bear in mind that if you want to control speakers with it, that they won't quietly switch on or off. The product itself is well made and easy to set up and use. The useful 'group' function allows my computer and router to be switched on together, but I can also switch the router off if I'm not using the Internet. As others have noted, it would be useful to have a switch on the plug unit itself for when the remote is not to hand, but otherwise the design is good and the units respond instantly and reliably to the remote, even through floors and walls. These units are for relatively low draw (4 amps, I think) so don't plug in too much stuff. A higher capacity unit is available from the same company. The environmental credentials of the system seem to be somewhat overstated. The units are made in China and delivered in a tough plastic blister pack, a fact which is promoted as 'secure' on the company web site. This means as well as the carbon cost of manufacture and shipping half-way round the world, the packaging is so hard to recycle, it will inevitably end up buried somewhere. It's not as if they benefit from display packaging on Amazon anyway, a cardboard box would have been fine. The savings that the associated literature claim can be made seem optimistic, although they are apparently from an independent source. The battery in the remote is a CR2032 that is not rechargeable and there are no instructions on how to replace it (on the positive side the remote is small). The instructions even refer to CO2 as C02. The units reportedly draw 0.7 watts when in use (presumably round the clock) so you need to be sure that the items being switched are drawing somewhat more than that. I have a 10 year old Sony monitor which has a very good standby mode (it audibly clicks on and off just like the BBS units do), using the BBS with this as the only thing plugged in might prove to be more expensive than without due to both BBS and the monitor drawing electricity when the monitor was in use. Items like the router, modem and aerial amplifier were unquestionably wasting electricity round the clock - it's worth doing some calculations to see what can be saved before buying. I've give four stars because essentially the product is pretty good, it's just not quite as green as it's cracked up to be. More Reviews