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Green Products: Digital timer plug

by Nick Smith 10th April 2007

Digital timer plug Another very useful product to help you save energy. I've got all sorts of computer/TV equipment that gets left on all day:

Using a timer plug, I can switch these off completely during the night when I'm not going to need them, and then start them up again in the morning. I've programmed the home server to switch itself off a few minutes before the timer plug, so it shuts down safely without losing any data. This also has the benefit of stopping me working late into the night - stay up too long and everything goes blank!

Incidently, I used a simple mechanical timer plug at first, but it lost about 5-10 mins PER DAY, so was completely useless :( The digital one linked below seems much better, as well as having options for weekends, etc.

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