Talk:Idling current

Snipped stuff

"Analog electronic circuits sometimes need to be designed while keeping the idling currents in mind, as these currents may be used to run other components in the circuit, or, more commonly, will result in undesired noise in the output."

Quiescent current is an essential design issue in more or less all analogue equipment.

"This energy consumption occurs because many electronic devices can't be fully turned off without pulling the wall plug. "

It occurs because they aren't, not because they cant be.

", and enables toasters to toast faster. "

no Tabby (talk) 11:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merging article?

This article covers a lot of the same topics that are addressed in the article [Standby power]. Is it worthwhile to merge the two? It would take care of the orphan problem and probably remove a lot of the editorialized language in this article.