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Maximize Energy Efficiency: The Benefits of Continuous Running for Your Equipment

28 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short instructional YouTube clip (creator: Derek Cole) in which a single speaker (SPEAKER A) explains that equipment is more energy-efficient when run for longer continuous periods because startup consumes the most power. The speaker recommends avoiding frequent on/off cycles to save energy, using a car-start analogy to illustrate startup power draw.

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That's what's going to happen. If you want it to not run all the time, it's going to turn on and off, on and off, on and off. So you're better off than it running for a period of time. Does that make sense? Because it's. It's more. The most power that unit pulls is when it starts, just like your car. So the longer the runtime, the better, because you're saving energy by actually starting and running versus starting, stopping, starting, stopping.