Apple TV Power Consumption

What is the power consumption in standby on a Apple TV 3 and is it good practice to leave it on standby all the time?

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 6:19 AM

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Oct 1, 2016 11:49 AM in response to Anthony Hilsdon

not sure about the newer versions but the 1g appletv used pretty much the same power in standby as 100% on

http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html

state it have a 6Watt psu

did the google on your behalf

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2605624?start=15&tstart=0

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Apr 24, 2013 2:22 PM in response to Rudegar

Thanks for your time Rudegar, that's pretty reassuring news, I think I can just about afford to leave it on standby when not in use at 1W usage rate!!

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