Anyway i got the old wattage meter out and did a test and was a bit shocked to find that during idle mode standby the zp120 consumes 25 watts.
Sonos play 5 standby power consumption.
Sonos is designed to be instantly on and ready to play at a moment s notice.
Morning all like a lot of us i m going through that exercise of upgrading all our lights from the oddball collection to 100 led and it caused me to wander what my various sonos boxes consume on standby and in operation.
My question is if i leave the line in connected but switch off my tv on standby.
2 years ago 11 january 2018.
Sonos claim around 6 watts during standby here that s a massive difference.
11 2w at 80 volume.
Having 5 sonos devices around this means 25 watts on average idle consumption.
Watts is a unit of power the rate at which energy is consumed not.
Watt 5 1 va 14 1 pf 35 not far from the sonos 6 9 watt spec.
3 8watts with microphone on.
I would like to know the power consumption in the following scenario.
Not completely powered off will my sonos play 5 eventually go into sleep mode or not.
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How is denon doing good when all of their units consume as much or more than every new generation sonos device with the exception of the beam which consumes up to 0 5 w more.
Sonos devices on average consume about 5 watts each if idle.
The play 5 2nd gen seems to have reduced power consumption to 1w when in idle that is good but the cost is too high.
Btw as electronic engineer i can say that adding the wol function is very easy and making it configurable by user just enlarge the audience without sacrifice usability in other use cases.
Does anyone have stats that show to a layman what my various ca s play 5.
The table below describes watts w consumed by each sonos product while in idle mode.
It uses less electricity when idle and not actively playing music.
And if not how much power is the play 5 likely to consume when there s no audio being output.
Over a year this is about 25x24hx365 219 kwh.
Turning the microphone off on standby saves you.
Best answer by chris 11 january 2018 15 07.
It uses 3 5 4w in standby which is relatively high if you only use your sonos every now and then.
When playing music it goes up to 35 40 watts which doesn t seem too high but the idle power consumption is shocking.
In germany where 1 kwh is about 0 30 euro cent this then means about 70 euro about 100 just to maintain an idle system.
Dug out my kill a watt ez and my gen 1 play 5 these numbers are at 120 volts.
Sonos power consumption while idle.
We didn t have a sonos one for this particular test but it s likely to have similar power use to the sonos play 1.
Year of use on standby.
