Power Consumption

[Francois Ouellette]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Ansar Mohammed
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Sent: Sunday, 14 August, 2005 19:55
>Subject: [TLUG]: Power Consumption
>
>Hello All,
>Many of us here have more than one computer at home. Some of us I believe
have as maybe a small network. I was wondering how >does everyone deal with
the impact on your hydro bill?
>One of my hopes as I came to Canada was to have my own little server farm
in my basement. (I am a retro computing guy so I really am >not interested
in new stuff) Now everyone I meet is warning me about the impact on my power
bill.


It definitely costs something!

Looking at the added wattage of everything I have at home (2 desktops with
tube monitors, 1 laptop, router, printers, etc) it easily adds up to over
2500 watts when many things are in use at the same time. This costs easily a
few dollars every day.

I guess you can check the labels on your equipment and figure out how much
power each will typically consume.
At 4.3 cents per kW-hour you can easily figure out how much your equipment
costs per day.

If you are in business you can declare this (estimated) portion of your
Hydro bill as an expense.

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>






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