[Pc_Support] Re: Reducing Electricity Costs -- bulbs first and foremost ...

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:22, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> >> For the run-down on my actual power usage of machines in the computer
> >> room, look here:
> >> http://www.logicprobe.org/~octo/stuff/power.txt
> >
> > Assuming most these machines are on 24/7 how do you calculate the
> > electric power they use per day?
>
> Well, electricity consumption (what you're billed for by the power
> company) is measured in Killowatt-hours.  1 kWh is equivalent to having
> something running for 1 hour, that consumes 1 kW of electricity.  So you
> take the combined draw of my equipment in kW, multiply by the number of
> hours in a day, and you have the kWh per day.

What equipment did you use to measure the actual power utilization for each 
system / device?

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Jason Boxman
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