[Articles] Home automation light switches & power consumption

[CT Droid]

So once in a while, reality sets in, and we realize that powering all these home automation switches can't be free. So what does it cost? A CocoonTech.com member just posted about a little experiment he did, and the results might surprise you! View Forum Thread.

This isn't the first time this topic has been brought up, but it's a nice reminder that we have to keep this in mind when discussing how home automation can save us energy. Here are some of the older threads:

• power consumption of automated light switches when OFF
• new Insteon generation that uses less power?
• power consumption for HA (Z-wave, Insteon,UPB,etc)

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