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Vampire power, says GrinningPlanet.com, is "the electricity your home electronics and appliances suck out of the power grid when you're not using them." Grinning Planet continues: "If you're a conscientious user of appliances and gadgets, you always turn them off when you're not using them. But many electronics don't actually go all the way off-they continue using 'standby power.' Some examples of features that require standby power are: internal clocks and sensors; external clock displays and panel display LEDs; remote control sensors; battery rechargers and power-conversion packs; and communications between a base unit and a portable unit (as in a portable phone)."
Perhaps the simplest solution to vampire power-also known as phantom load, idle current, and wall wart-says The New York Times "is to unplug every electronic device that is not in use. Another is to attach all appliances to power strips, and shut off the strips when devices are not in use to cut the flow of power to the transformers."
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