People always amuse me, it turned out that the technician measured the DC current AFTER the power supply. Ones we plugged in the energy meter, we got the “real” current draw and watts reading, BTW the PF is 100%. Turns out that the readings are almost identical or around 11 watts, with $0.15 per kWh that’s less than $20 / year so Marketing has to find something else to boost about.
Thanks for all your help, I may go and purchase a power meter for my house, very nifty device. Stefan On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyhow I picked up a small energy meter for less than $30 so tomorrow the > can plug in the Alarms and get the true reading, where marketing will take > after that is any ones guess. > > Stefan > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > No I'm trying to figure out how much more energy efficient our new 7" >> LCD >> > display alarm is to our "old" LED version, and based upon an PF of .6, >> the >> > difference is $25 / year. >> >> Too bad you've now spent a few $1000 in time figuring it out. :-) >> >> > Marketing is trying to capitalize on the Energy efficiency. >> >> So just tell them to make up a number. It's what they'll do anyway. >> :-) >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > > > -- > Stefan Jafs > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
