Removing sky card to save energy
I don't subscribe to sky, but I have a sky box and card. I've noticed how hot the card gets after a while. I imagine there's a lot of electronics inside that do nothing but check the card regularly for encryption purposes, even when it's on a free to air channel. I wonder if removing the card will deactivate a lot of internal processing and hence save energy long term. Just a thought.
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Re: removing sky card to save energy
I doubt the card generates much heat itself. More likely the card reader is sited over a hot chip.
Some of the old NTL boxes were notorious for causing the cards to turn broen and warp, but it only happened because the card was right above a very hot chip. |
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Pace boxes used to make the original telewest cards go all brittle around the chip! Used to pull them out and they we pretty much shatter! |
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They tell you not to do this because it may miss an update, but any updates will be picked up as soon as you plug it back in. |
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That is not the case with most Sky boxes - if you miss an update it could be weeks before they send the trigger to you box and that will also be overnight - so switching it off will miss that one too.
You can force an update - but that will not work for the first few weeks of new software being available. VirginMedia is the only one I know that does a software update check at startup. Quote:
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Hmmm so it seems that Sky customers have no choice but to keep their boxes powered up or risk missing an update.
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Standby is enough to cool down and save energy though, no need to unplug it at all. |
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Some figures here:
https://www.sust-it.net/energy-saving.php?id=6 Think there must be an error and the in use and standby figures have been transposed as the standby figures are higher than the in use mode! |
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