Green Options » standby kill chip http://greenoptions.com/tag/standby-kill-chip Posts tagged 'standby kill chip' Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:05:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Standby Kill Chip: The End of Vampire Power? http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/standby-kill-chip-the-end-of-vampire-power/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/standby-kill-chip-the-end-of-vampire-power/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:05:22 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/standby-kill-chip-the-end-of-vampire-power/ tv

We’ve seen lots of tools recently to stop vampire power— the power used by electronics when they’re off and still plugged in— but the Standby Kill Chip may be the best. The chip is installed directly in electronics or power strips. It uses an algorithm that senses when an electronic device is in standby mode and shuts it off.

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