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Thank you so much.  That was very easy.

You seem like someone who is very knowledgeable on Sonos, do you otherwise see any issues with turning off our 5 x Playbars, 1 x Arc and 6 x Connect Amps, when we are not using any of them and if not, is there a limit to how long we should leave them all off, for example if we were to go away on holiday for 3 weeks? i.e. with the price of power/energy we are just trying to conserve as much power as possible.  Thanks in advance.

Sonos are designed to remain plugged in, they go to a low power mode when inactive.

Power cycling isn't good for any electronic device as the initial surge at power-up is hard on them. How hard and how many cycles will be tolerated is a hard question.

So what I do (not recommended by Sonos) is that I power down Sonos that aren't going to be used for a couple weeks. Everything else stays on. I do power everything up to keep up with updates, given recent issues I'm doing it monthly, in the past it was more like twice a year.

Thanks Stan, much appreciated.

When you say “they go to a low power mode when inactive.” do you or anyone else have any idea how much each Sonos device (i.e. a Connect Amp, a Playbar and an Arc) consumes, power-wise, when active and inactive?

Thanks in advance.

I'm on a tiny screen so searching is hard but on the support page you should be able to find the numbers. I think most are in the single digit Watt range.

Thanks Stanley, and sorry for what might seem like silly questions, but when you say “support page” is that a page on the Sonos website?  Cheers, Richard

Pretty sure @Stanley_4 is referring to this page, which I found using a fairly simple Google search for ‘Sonos power use’ 

Thank you - I contacted Sonos and they (or the bot?) could only advise what the power consumption is on inactive mode, but they (or the bot) couldn’t advise what the power consumption is in active mode.

Wouldn’t that be a variable, depending on the source material, and the volume in use?

Hi Bruce, I did wonder that, but I would assume they’d publish a maximum wattage or even a typical/average power consumption during typical usage i.e. a bit like car manufacturer's publish a car’s fuel consumption.