--- Mike Morris WA6ILQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did this at a friend house and we ended up with
> about 20
> plugged into a half-dozen power strips and totalling
> about
> 2 and a half amps of AC... He's got 112-114v of AC
> at his
> house so using 113 we get 255.2w ... divide by 1000
> and
> times 8760=2235.5, or 2.2kw just in wall wart
> wastage.
>
Except that the formula is already in KWh, IOW not 2.2
but 2235 KWh per year! If he's burning that much juice
(255 watts) then he's using a KWh every four hours!
That's 60 cents a day just to run wall warts.
Joe
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