Plasma Power Consumption

[cyrus fan]

I've had my Panasonic TH37-PX80 Plasma for about 6 weeks and love it - great picture quality.

But I've just got my electricity bill for the last qtr and usage has gone up about 60% (!) at a time in the year when the lights have been on less etc. The only thing that's changed is the new TV.

My old CRT Panny says its power consumption is 105W and the new Plasma says in normal use it's 235W, but I would have expected in real terms that to equate to about £10 per annum on the bill.

It's not on that much, maybe 2 hours in the evenings.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar or must there be another cause somewhere?

Thanks

 

[professorhat]

Well my electricity bill jumped up recently but this was due to general enery price hike. I've had the plasma for 2.5 years now and don't remember any noticeable increase at the time.