Consult Your Domestic Electrician To Know Your TV’s Energy Consumption

Nothing could ever be more relaxing and fun than having a laid back weekend at home while watching your favorite TV shows in your own room. There are a lot of great TV series and movies being released recently and watching them together with your family or friends and even neighbors can surely be exciting. But aside from the fun you can get out of watching TV, everyone must be aware of how to properly use our ever reliable TV sets and understand how it can affect us in terms of energy usage. If you’ll be asked if the TV set you have in your living room take up a big chunk of your monthly electric bill, can you answer it up front?

There many high quality TVs on the market these days that incorporate state of the art features to create a much sleeker, more sophisticated design and produce beyond real-life images. Unfortunately though, there are some that are lacking in the energy-saving aspect.  For an instance, many thought that flat screen television sets have energy-saving technology including LED TVs, but that is not the case most of the time.  Studies show that Plasma television sets consume more electricity than LCD and LED ones.

If you’re looking to have a new brand of television set and you’re thinking of buying a practical one, then it’s probably the perfect time to make the switch.  If you are clinging to a model that does not consume much energy, you can ask the help of a domestic electrician and he can provide you with some suggestions. One of the common tips domestic electricians provide their clients to determine if your TV’s running you high on energy costs is to place your clean hand on the TV screen to see how much heat it is producing.  The more heat it is emitting, the more energy it consumes. This is the easiest way to measure the energy consumption of an appliance. However, since TVs are machines that are often used, they are really likely to heat up in a given time.  So, rather than just gauging whether your TV eats up a lot of energy or not, consider other factors such as the size and model. LCD is deemed more efficient when made in small sizes while DLP or rear projection TV is more efficient at bigger sizes.

When buying your next TV set, make sure it has the Energy Star seal. TVs with this seal utilize 30% less than those without one. If you really want to save money by turning the TV off, unplugging the TV is the best thing to do to really stop its energy consumption.