Save Energy With Your Wii →
For Blog Action Day 2007, Andreas Gohr investigated how much energy is consumed by his different appliances whilst turned off:
The biggest surprise was my Wii. It draws amazingly little energy while playing a game (18 Watts)—compare that to a PC or a laptop. But the Wii had a really high standby consumption of 10 Watts!
In fact there are three power states your Wii can be in. They are indicated by the color of its power LED:
- Green LED (on): about 18 Watts
- Orange LED (standby): about 10 Watts
- Red LED (standby): about 1 Watt
The question is: how to power down the Wii to the red standby mode?
The trick is to disable the WiiConnect24 standby option. This means it will not download weather or news updates in standby, but that seems to be a small loss compared to the saved energy and money.
Turns out that by simply disabling WiiConnect24, Andreas is now saving approximately €13.72 a year.
How much is your Wii costing you?
