William wrote: >Your typical 19 inch CRT monitor draws about 500 watts. They draw close to >1000 watts at startup (mostly due to filiment startup current and the >degausing coil). Your newer lcd displays draw less than 150 watts so there >is a huge savings energy wise. BTW your typical television draws about the >same current as the same size crt monitor. Function wise they are nearly >identical so you would expect the currents to be about the same too.
Where did you get those numbers from??? I have been in the repair business for 40+ yrs and have measured the power consumption of a lot of equipment.. Really simple to do.. measure the current and multiply it by the supply voltage = power. A typical 17-19" monito will consume between 100-140 watts.. max.. the surge current does not matter in the grand scheme of things.. it is a spike of not more than about 1 second in duration.. totally insignificant. The old 23-25" tube TV's of 30 yrs ago only consumed 500-750 watts typically.. Your numbers for a 19" monitor are way way off. Most of the average home desktop computers suck between 65-100 watts and will peak on boot or heavy drive usage about 25% greater. I have a new dual AMD 3500-64 w/8gb ram with 6 250 gb SATA drives for a customer and the measured power is just over 210 watts running idle and avgs about 240 watts moving data between drives on burnin. -R -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rich Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netlynx.us/rich/ ham radio: kf6arx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And remember - if it ain't broke, hit it again. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
