| "0.7w seems low to me for standby." Affordable for many, yes, but IMO, for a LED lightbulb, that's horrendous. Let's do the math: 0.7W full time is 16,8 Wh a day. In use, a 1000 lumen bright LED bulb uses 14W. If we assume you have it switched on 12 hours a day, that 0.7W at 24 hours a day adds 10% to its power usage. More realistically, your LED bulb will take 10W, and be on for four hours a day, for 40Wh. That means that 16,8Wh adds almost 50% to your power usage. And I think the typical bulb will use even less power and an even lower duty cycle. 8W, 2 hours a day, and you have a radio broadcaster that occasionally switches on a light :-) By the way, 0.7W also is also against the spirit of an EU directive on power consumption (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320...), which by now (it's over four years after this came into force) states: The power consumption of equipment in any condition providing only a reactivation function, or providing only a reactivation function and a mere indication of enabled reactivation function, shall not exceed 0,50 W. |