It uses less electricity when idle and not actively playing music.
Sonos play 5 standby power consumption.
When playing music it goes up to 35 40 watts which doesn t seem too high but the idle power consumption is shocking.
Having 5 sonos devices around this means 25 watts on average idle consumption.
Does anyone have stats that show to a layman what my various ca s play 5.
Dug out my kill a watt ez and my gen 1 play 5 these numbers are at 120 volts.
Year of use on standby.
2 years ago 11 january 2018.
My question is if i leave the line in connected but switch off my tv on standby.
The table below describes watts w consumed by each sonos product while in idle mode.
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.
Sonos power consumption while idle.
I would like to know the power consumption in the following scenario.
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.
It uses 3 5 4w in standby which is relatively high if you only use your sonos every now and then.
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.
And if not how much power is the play 5 likely to consume when there s no audio being output.
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.
Watts is a unit of power the rate at which energy is consumed not.
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.
11 2w at 80 volume.
Playing music but it will depend on the volume.
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.
Watt 5 1 va 14 1 pf 35 not far from the sonos 6 9 watt spec.
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Sonos claim around 6 watts during standby here that s a massive difference.
Best answer by chris 11 january 2018 15 07.
Sonos product 230v eu play 1 3 8 watts one microphone on up to 4 1 watts play 5 gen2 2 2 watts beam microphone on up to 5 5 watts playbase 3 0.
Turning the microphone off on standby saves you.
Sonos is designed to be instantly on and ready to play at a moment s notice.
Over a year this is about 25x24hx365 219 kwh.
3 8watts with microphone on.
100 hours at 80 volume.
