Hub3 power consumption/switch off at night?

[Edm1]

Hi, looking to reduce electricity usage as much as possible. My hub isn’t used during the night  so wasting power

what is the power consumption watts?

any reason not to put it on a mains timer to switch off at say midnight at on again 6am?

[goslow]

Figures of 12 or 13 W have been quoted on here in the past IIRC.

If you have a landline phone from VM that comes through the Hub 3, your home phone would not work if the power to the hub was off.

Edit: Refer below for some stat's

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Power-consumption-SuperHub3-both-modes/td-p...

[Stuxxxx]

Or put another way…12W is 12/1000 = 0.012kWh  At 42p per kWh (what I’m now paying), that’s 0.5p an hour.

Even a 100W traditional light bulb is only 100/1000 = 0.1kWh, i.e. 4.2p an hour.

The things that really drink juice are anything with a heater in it.  Take a kettle at 1.8kW, i.e. 1800W.  1800/1000 = 1.8kWh or 76p an hour.  If boiling a kettle takes 5 minutes that’s 5/60 x 76 = 6.3p

[Adduxi]

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@Edm1 wrote:

<snip> any reason not to put it on a mains timer to switch off at say midnight at on again 6am?

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VM will advise to leave on for firmware updates etc. But there are users on this Forum who use timers. It’s your choice. 

[Stuxxxx]

On the other hand and no offense meant to Adduxi…

OK, say a timer costs £8.  (The cheapest I can see on a certain online shopping portal).  Turning off saves 0.5p and hour, say 3p for 6 hours over night.  Timer therefore takes 800p/3p = 267 days to pay for itself, (roughly 9 months) and that's not counting the electricity that the timer itself will use.

[goslow]

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@Stuxxxx wrote:

On the other hand and no offense meant to Adduxi…

OK, say a timer costs £8.  (The cheapest I can see on a certain online shopping portal).  Turning off saves 0.5p and hour, say 3p for 6 hours over night.  Timer therefore takes 800p/3p = 267 days to pay for itself, (roughly 9 months) and that's not counting the electricity that the timer itself will use.

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This has been discussed at regular intervals in the past and the two schools of thought are A) turning the router off brings personal and environmental benefits by saving money and electricity so those folk fit a timer or B) turning the router on and off repeatedly may be harmful to the router, may miss out on overnight updates and would also disconnect smart gadgets from the internet as well as the VM phone line via the router, so those folk leave the hub on.

As stated by Aduxxi, it's a matter of choice.

[newapollo]

IMO there is no need for a timer.

What's wrong with getting up off your backside and manually turning off equipment?

<Does an Indiana Jones and runs like hell>

[Tudor]

Not trying to argue one way or the other, but if you have an alarm, doorbell, cameras or IoT devices the hub will need to stay on.

[Edm1]

Thanks all for your comments. Question answered! Kudos and thank you to all you experts !!

Personally I hate waste but I seems the hub consumption is so small there are bigger fish to fry in my house!

[goslow]

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@Edm1 wrote:

Thanks all for your comments. Question answered! Kudos and thank you to all you experts !!

Personally I hate waste but I seems the hub consumption is so small there are bigger fish to fry in my house!

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Don't know the wattage for frying fish but likely to be quite high! 😁