mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Power and $$$
One of my "24/7" PCs might cost me as much as $2/mo, if that--barely more than a light bulb actually. Of course, it isn't my primary desktop (not anymore, that is--it was back in 2002). |
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Lenagainster
join:2005-01-07
Silver Spring, MD
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| Working backwards; at $2 per month and lets say the cost in your area is ten cents per KWH rather than the 14 cents per KWH in the DC area. $2 buys you 20 KWH of electricity. Given that there are (30 X 24) 720 hours in a month, your computer burns 20/720 = .0277778 KW or 28 watts of electricity.
A very efficient computer indeed. Do you have a monitor with that? |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Yeah--an LCD, but it's usually off (obviously); old Celeron with a small, low-wattage PSU; cooling fans typically don't run--not hot enough.
OK, maybe it'll hit $2.50/mo. ;D |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
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said by Lenagainster  :Working backwards; at $2 per month and lets say the cost in your area is ten cents per KWH rather than the 14 cents per KWH in the DC area. $2 buys you 20 KWH of electricity. Given that there are (30 X 24) 720 hours in a month, your computer burns 20/720 = .0277778 KW or 28 watts of electricity. A very efficient computer indeed. Do you have a monitor with that? If you put your computer, monitor, printer, etc. on a APC it runs just like running ONE VCR.
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