Power Consumption
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Rob - 25 April 2006
Clearly in need of something to do - I bought one of those power/volt etc measurement thingies and came up with this:
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 25W
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 Standby 2W
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 Off 1W
19" AOC LCD Monitor 35W
19" AOC LCD Monitor Standby 4W
Wireless Phone 1W
PC 3200 AMD 110W
PC 3200 AMD Standby/Off 5W
100W Valve Stereo Amplifier 170W
Pure Evoke Digital Radio 5W
Pure Evoke Digital Radio Standby 5W
70W Stereo Solid State Power Amplifier 25WIt doesn't seem to make much difference what the Mini's doing - power consumption 'on' is around the 25W mark.
Rob
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D.M. Procida - 25 April 2006
Rob wrote:
Clearly in need of something to do - I bought one of those power/volt etc measurement thingies and came up with this:
Where did you get it from? I was looking for one recently.
Daniele
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Wayne Stuart - 25 April 2006
Rob wrote:
Clearly in need of something to do - I bought one of those power/volt etc measurement thingies and came up with this:
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 25W
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 Standby 2W
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 Off 1W
19" AOC LCD Monitor 35W
19" AOC LCD Monitor Standby 4W
Wireless Phone 1W
PC 3200 AMD 110W
PC 3200 AMD Standby/Off 5W
100W Valve Stereo Amplifier 170W
Pure Evoke Digital Radio 5W
Pure Evoke Digital Radio Standby 5W
70W Stereo Solid State Power Amplifier 25WIt doesn't seem to make much difference what the Mini's doing - power consumption 'on' is around the 25W mark.
What a coincidence! Been having a discussion elsewhere on this very issue lately.
I've got one of these power monitors too. These are my IT related figures:
iMac G5 17" 2GHz...
heavy load - 114w
low load - 72w
sleeping - 4wPowerbook G4 15" 1.5GHz...
charging...
heavy load - 61w
low load - 42w
sleeping - 21w
charged...
heavy load - 38w
low load - 22w
sleeping - 3wAnd for contrast, work IT equipment:
Fujitsu P4 2.8GHz plus 19" TFT (110 of)...
heavy load - n/k
low load - 85w
standby - 61w
off - 2w
note: set to never sleep, and never turned offLexmark laser printer (8 of)...
online - 20w
standby - 15w
never turned offLexmark colour laser printer...
online - 50w
standby - 29w
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Wayne Stuart - 25 April 2006
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Stuart Bell - 25 April 2006
Rob wrote:
Clearly in need of something to do - I bought one of those power/volt etc measurement thingies and came up with this:
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 25W
Mac Mini Computer 1.25 Standby 2WI find that VERY impressive. I wonder how much of that is for the pulsing LED?
Stuart
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Chris Ridd - 25 April 2006
Probably not much. I think the RDF generator uses more!
Cheers,
Chris
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Rob - 25 April 2006
That's the one - I paid less than 10UKP during an offer spell. Seems accurate and versatile but the display is v. dim.
Rob
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Rob - 25 April 2006
That's impressive as they go - my PC is fairly 'loaded' (400W PSU, 6600GT graphics, 2 HD, 2 optical, wireless) but it is one of the newer AMD processors that I bought partly for power management/low consumption (ITRO 30W IIRC). What does '110 of' refer to?
Rob
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Wayne Stuart - 26 April 2006
This is only the wattage while under low load. None of these PCs are ever stretched, so I have no idea how much it drinks if it did. Plus, they're all low spec, and nothing fancy added that might use more power.
What does '110 of' refer to?
That's how many we have. Costs £4600 per annum to keep powered up permanently, of which only £1200 of that is while they're actually being used. The remaining £3400 is wasted. But strangely, everyone seems to be okay with that. <shrug>
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Wayne Stuart - 26 April 2006
Mine doesn't seem dim. Maybe you got a lemon. ;)
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Rob - 26 April 2006
Blimey! I worked at a college that ran 100+ pcs 24/7 with the power management switched off, monitors on, deliberately. I sent a polite(ish) email with a few calculations to IT support suggesting this was costing many thousands of pounds. Completely ignored. When I left a few months ago they'd enabled screen savers (sic) - that's progress. I was given explicit instructions not to power down PCs when I left a room at the end of the day, no reason, just instructed. It was something to do with 'it creates more work for us (IT support)'.
Rob
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zoara - 26 April 2006
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:53:20 +0100, Rob wrote:
I was given explicit instructions not to power down PCs when I left a room at the end of the day, no reason, just instructed. It was something to do with 'it creates more work for us (IT support)'.
"Hello, support? This computer isn't working. The screen's all black."
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