On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:19:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:11:02AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:33:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > >
> > > Also, Radio Shack sells a "current transformer" which is an add-on device
> > > for their digita
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:11:02AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:33:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > >
> > Also, Radio Shack sells a "current transformer" which is an add-on device
> > for their digital multimeter. With the multimeter and the current transformer
> > you can
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:33:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> Also, Radio Shack sells a "current transformer" which is an add-on device
> for their digital multimeter. With the multimeter and the current transformer
> you can measure current and voltage on the AC supply input to the comput
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:04:41AM -0500, Bill Morgan wrote:
> A late reply, but I'm just back from vacation:
>
> On 8/11/03 9:45 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Even though I have power supplies that add up to >1400 watts I know that
> > isn't really the case be
A late reply, but I'm just back from vacation:
On 8/11/03 9:45 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Even though I have power supplies that add up to >1400 watts I know that
> isn't really the case because the fuses haven't blown.
>
> Does anyone have any information or metho
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
> really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
>
> It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
>
> I think I'll be mo
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:45:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
> really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
>
> It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
>
> I think I'll be mo
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:36:15PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> sounds like you need to open the window ... or buy a household 20"
> fan for $20 from home depo
> -- moving air is a lot harder to heat up
In general, moving air is a lot _easier_ to heat up, according to the
laws of thermodynamics
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
> > really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
> >
> > It's now a good 10 degrees
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Johann Koenig wrote:
> > Does anyone have any information or methods which might determine what
> > a"typical" computers power consumption might be?
Well, I found that when we moved to P4/CeleronP4 systems at the office
here, that our APC 280VA battery backups just aren't pow
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:36:15PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > sounds like you need to open the window ... or buy a household 20"
> > fan for $20 from home depo
> > -- moving air is a lot harder to heat up
>
> In general, moving air is a lot _easi
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
My own room stays at about 80, even in the winter. Most winters I have
the window open a crack to keep the temperature sane.
One computer, one 21" monitor and one 17" monitor.
Summers a
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:45:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
> really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
>
> It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
With decent air circul
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Pigeon wrote:
> >I'm going to guess that you maybe have more capable motherboards but
> >fewer hard drives, and your PSUs are running at around half their
> >capacity or a little more, which is good.
> >
>
> No. I have at best a 750MH
This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
I think I'll be moving most of them back out of that room.
But it brought me to another question
Pigeon wrote:
trip all the circuit breakers
except the one feeding the computer to make sure; watch your
electricity meter, and time how long it takes to use one kWh. If it
takes 5 hours, your computer's taking 200W, etc. This will probably
read high, ie. safe, and also tells you how much it costs
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