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British Gas standby saver, will it work??

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Old 03-06-2009, 7:01 PM   #1
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British Gas standby saver, will it work??

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to control some led downlighters and a standing lamp with my Harmony 785 and was wondering if the British Gas standby saver would do the job?

If i made sure my tv, for example, was plugged in as the main device, would the lights that are plugged in be turned off too?


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Re: British Gas standby saver, will it work??

See product setup decription here, http://www.standby-saver.com/UserFil...uctions_A5.pdf , looks to me like it doesn't sense when your tv is on, you just have infrared control of the whole strip, and upto 2 of the 6 sockets can be powered continuously.
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Re: British Gas standby saver, will it work??

Really?! That would be even better if that's the case i can't check the pdf atm, but the ultimate aim would be to have IR power control over the lights so if i were able to turn them on/off individually using my harmony that would be excellent.

Does this seem like the case then?

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Re: British Gas standby saver, will it work??

Not individually, the standby saver is either on or off so to control 2 lights seperately via IR you would need 2 of these.
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Old 04-06-2009, 3:42 PM   #5
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Re: British Gas standby saver, will it work??

Ok, thought that may be the case. Still sounds promising though. While looking i stumbled across the following:

IntelliPlug™ - Intelligent Desktop Computer Adaptor > Maplin

This seems as though it might do the job for me, so long as i wanted the lights to turn off with another existing piece of equipment, and i could plug it directly into an extension block.

Am i right with my assumptions of how this works?


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