Belkin’s Conserve Products Make Conserving Energy a Breeze
Building and Architecture Home ElectronicsPublished November 4, 2011 at 2:28 am No Comments
Keeping track of the energy consumption in our homes is important for our utility bills and important for the environment. Since there are more appliances and electronic devices than ever taking up residence in our homes and offices, it can seem like an overwhelming task to monitor and keep up with everything. Belkin, a company that makes devices that support and simplify electronics use, estimates that a typical home has 40 power drawing devices. Thanks to their new Conserve line of energy-reducing products, monitoring and reducing your home’s energy consumption is easier than ever. In the long run, it benefits your family with reduced energy usage and smaller utility bills. It also benefits the environment by reducing your carbon footprint.
The Conserve Insight energy usage monitor
The Conserve Insight is a small device that may become your home’s best friend. It consists of a tabletop display unit that can be plugged into any outlet. Once it is plugged in, you can plug any appliance or electronic device into the Conserve outlet and instantly monitor the cost to operate, CO2 usage or watts used on the display screen. Find out how much energy your TV’s really use, or what it costs to operate your computer for a day, a month or the projected cost for the year. It makes it easy to determine which of your home’s items draws the most energy, costs the most to operate, or would be most beneficial to unplug. Using the Conserve Insight will allow you to truly understand the energy usage of your home and allow you to think of ways to conserve and reduce.
The Conserve Valet
With every member of your family juggling multiple mobile devices, does it seem like there is a charging cord everywhere you look? Belkin’s Conserve Valet ends the clutter and ups the convenience of taking care of all your mobile devices, without drawing unnecessary energy. This charging station consists of a flat top for laying mobile devices on with a compartment underneath for storing and hiding all those charging cords. You only need to plug in one cord, which means the unsightly mass of charging cords are a thing of the past. Even better is that your devices start charging when you push the start button, and the Valet automatically shuts off once you unplug, meaning it draws no power when not in use.
The Conserve line of sockets, switches and power strips
Belkin’s line of Conserve products also features several outlet and switch accessories to help reduce power usage in your home:
- The Conserve socket allows you to plug in electronic devices, hair dryers or lights and fans and the timer will turn off the devices according to the length of time you set.
- A Conserve Power Switch will plug in to any wall socket and will turn the power off to any device when you press the switch. This eliminates the power draw common to many appliances and devices, even standby power; yet allows them to stay plugged in.
- Conserve surge protectors offer many options for conserving power while giving you control of when, where and how energy will be used. The Conserve surge protectors include auto-off, remote, or timer features.
The entire line of Belkin Conserve products also comes in eco-friendly packaging. Belkin has tried to reduce the amount of packaging needed and all but eliminated any plastic. Making sure your home is as energy efficient as possible is increasingly more important thanks to an abundance of products, devices and appliances that are modern necessities. As your family’s use of their favorite devices continues to increase, Belkin’s Conserve line of products will help your utility costs and your impact on the environment to decrease.
