Crank on your disk and spin your cdrom too.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:54, lukas wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2004 20:30, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> 
> > FIrst of all I apologize of an OT thread, but i would like to get an
> > estimate of how much power (in Watts) would this consume:
> 
> Get an ammeter and a socket. Put the ammeter "in row" (NOT parallell! :)
> with your power circuit and connect it to the socket. Now you can
> measure the amperage flowing through the line. (Before start a
> process that consumes 100%CPU and do something graphic
> intensive work, e.g. a GL-game, start your sound etc. The
> power consumtion should be as high as possible).
> 
> Becase "P = U * I" you can now calculate the electrical power
> by multiplicating the amperage and the voltage.
> But be warned. If you put on your computer, the momentary
> power-consumtion could be much higher than the value you
> have calculated. This method is only good for pre-calculating
> your bill for your electricity company. :)
> If you really wanna be shure that the power-supply in your
> car is sufficient, you should buy an inverter, that is strong
> enough for the worst case (like Brendon Walker has recommended).
> 
> cu
> 
> lukas
> 

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