Power Consumption idle

It sure can, just try and touch a 75 watt incandescent light bulb and see how long you can hold on!

While Timo's point is valid, i would hope that the Sim ( or any other amp ) offers a little more area as a heatsink than that of what the glass of a light bulb offers.

I would suggest picking up a device from Rat Shack as i've found it to come in very handy. It is called a "Kill A Watt" and is a device that can measure the line voltage, amperage, total wattage, what frequency the AC is cycling at, the Kilowatt hours used averaged over a period of time, etc... It does all of this with a digital display for ease of use. You push a button and select what reading you want and it does all of the work. I bought it when it first came out and it was about $30 if i remember correctly. I think that they run either $40 or $50 now though as they had an introductory sale when i purchased mine.

As a side note, folks with monoblocks or identical amps might be pretty surprised to find out just how out of balance their amps really are from one another. While i knew about this before, this device really makes it easy to see just how much "production tolerance" comes into play from one identical unit to another. Sean
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Assume:
* amp uses 75W at idle
* amp is idling 24/7
* cost of electricity is $0.14 / kWh (on the high side)

So, per day the amp uses 75W * 24h = 1.8 kWh
On a monthly basis, the cost would be (1.8 kWh / day)(30 days/month)($0.14 / kWh) = $7.56

Of course, if you actually USE the amp and it draws more power, then you will need to factor that in, too.

Michael

$0.14/kWh...WOW! We only pay $0.06 here (VA)!