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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