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Article #14635Re: Cost of running my PC?
From: Bill Mayhew
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:35
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:35
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I've measured several 286 and 386 machines with a wattmeter. The average power consumption is about 60 watts at idle (no disk seeking) and about 10 watts more whille the disk is seeking. Monitors draw about 60 to 100 watts depending on how much of the screen is illuminated. So figure worst case 160 watts if you leave the monitor on all the time (not an especially good idea). Presuming electricity goes for about 10 cents per KWH, That would be $11.91 in a 31 day month. If you shut the monitor off for all but four hours a day, your cost would be about $5.71 per month. -- Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (140.220.1.1) 146.580: N8WED
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!neoucom.edu!wtm From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew) Subject: Re: Cost of running my PC? Message-ID: <1992Dec21.143559.3207@uhura.neoucom.edu> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine References: <1992Dec21.040252.19109@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:35:59 GMT Lines: 16