Ni Neil, would be great to borrow that gubbin for a couple of days, I'll
be in touch...
Neil Stockbridge wrote:
There are gubbins that can be plugged into a power outlet and which
measure the power used by anything that is then plugged into their
integrated power outlet. You are welcome to borrow mine if you can't
get hold of one. It measures VA, W and the power factor between them
and if left in overnight will record the kWh used, which can obviously
be combined with the unit charge on your electricity bill to find out
how much it cost to run an applicance overnight.
Using my gubbin, I read 20W for my EPIA server, 15W for a Transmeta
laptop, and 200W for a workstation, although I would guess that modern
workstations would use more than 200W.
- neil
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:11:04AM +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
Marginally on / off topic I guess... I am interested in quantifying how
much it costs to leave a computer running over night, and therefore what
the power saving is per year to an organisation if computers that are
otherwise left running all night are turned off via a schedule.
The question I don't have the answer for so am asking the list is, what
would an approximate power consumption be for a typical modern
workstation that is sitting idle? Assuming that the monitor has powered
down by the operating system.
Cheers,
Roger
