From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/17/2026 3:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Sending the display to some sleep mode was a big save. A big CRT display   
   could eat a hundred watts.   
      
   I had a Trinitron here, and I checked and standby didn't save a watt :-)   
   The beam still seemed to be running, and perhaps deflected to the   
   side or something.   
      
   There was a definite dependence on resolution/refresh rate.   
   When the monitor would no longer run at 1280x1024 and I had   
   to turn down the resolution to stop arc-over on the HV,   
   the thing ran a *lot* cooler.   
      
   It got retired when it was getting a bit on the dim side.   
      
      Paul   
      
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