Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof (I >> brought my 46" LCD TV, PlayStation 3, and in total 5 computers and >> other electronics). After a couple of months of shock of seeing the >> electric bills, we started to do this kind of stuff >> (suspending/hibernating our machines, using CFL instead of normal >> light bulbs, etc.), and we cut the spending almost in four. > Apartment living maybe? > > I have 1 XBox, 2 Wii's, 40" LED TV, 22" LED monitor, 16" LCD monitor, an > xbmc frontend, 2 el-cheap android tablets permanently plugged in, 1 > desktop, 2 HP microservers and 3 laptops running almost 24/7. And about > 10 incandescent bulbs all evening, 2 neons and umpteen CFLs. > > It's a lot of power, sure. > > And all quite insignificant when compared to what the swimming pool > pump uses...... > > All a matter of perspective I suppose :-) >
My biggest expenses, refrigeration and heating/cooling. I have a large fridge, two deep freezers, two window A/C's for summer and a large heater for the winter. Compare any of those to my computer, the computer is a rounding error. My main rig, monitor, router, DSL modem and printer pulls about 150 watts at most. At most would be while it is compiling or something. When idle, ~100 watts. I figured it up once and I think it costs about $12.00 a month to run. Heck, when I have a $200.00 power bill, rounding error comes to mind. Heck, taxes and fees on the power bill is more than my puter uses. I would much rather fuss about the taxes than my puter. I use my puter. lol I think you hit it pretty good tho Alan. It's perspective. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
