TAKE BACK YOUR POWER

Gone are the days when the television set was the main piece of electrical equipment in your home. Today’s family usually has the equivalent of a home office complete with printer, scanner, fax machine and cell phone chargers. We also have entertainment systems that would have made a Hollywood producer envious 20 years ago. Unfortunately for your electricity bill, all of this equipment draws energy even when its off or in standby mode. While some equipment may need to remain on, most power consumed by these devices is simply wasted. Some studies have even suggested that the energy wasted by phantom loads in the US is large enough to power the electric needs for Peru, Vietnam and Greece combined.

How do you free yourself from phantom loads? The smart power strip is one solution. By plugging different types of equipment into different outlets, the Smart Strip automatically stops phantom loads on the devices that don’t need to remain on. Your electricity bill will thank you for it.

The Control Outlet: Plug your computer or TV into this outlet. When the device plugged into this outlet is turned off or on, the devices plugged into “Automatically Switched Outlets” will also turn off or on.

The Constantly Hot Outlets: You won’t save energy with any of the devices plugged into these outlets, but these are the ones that you will probably choose to leave on. Fax machines, cable boxes, satellite receivers, and cable/DSL modems.

The Automatically Switched Outlets: Plug all of your other devices into these outlets. These will switch off when you turn off the device that is plugged into the Control outlet. This is where you’ll save money on those phantom loads. Available at bitsltd.us.