So, how much electricity does Zak's office/PC, drain in a week?

[Zak33]

6pm: Sunday 27th May 2008.

I have attached the power meter to a multi plug, and will run all my PC stuff and work office equipment from it.

PC is a Quad 6700 Extremem with 4 gig and 2 or 3 hard drives accoring to use.
22" Iiyama monitor
Creative iTrigue speakers
Dell Dual Core Lappy with 2 gig
Phone Charger
Ikea Desk Lamp

OK....not scientific but these are the things plugged in. Everything will be left as I usuall leave it, OFF when not in use, but NOT unplugged or switch off at the wall.....it'll still have juice to draw if it wants it.

Electricity costs are set
11.1 p per Kw Hour daytime (7am to midnight)
4.8p per Kw Hour night time (midnight to 7am)

I checked with the electricity company and when the clocks went to British Summer time the meter readings are altered to suit as they always give an hour lea way either way. Basically 7 hours of economy 7 rating is applied. So I'll make sure that my PC is doing the same stuff at the hours around it.

Use as follows:

Folding a lot of the time, most nights.
Work on laptop AND PC daytime 2 days, evening every day.
Gaming every day pretty much, varying 1 hour to 3 hours, according to spare time. Game often left running (trading in Lineage 2)
Mobile phone to be charged.
Music several hours per day.

So.....onward. The meter is ticking

[SiM]

This will be interesting

It would also be interesting to see a week without folding too... to see how much of a difference it makes... (of course you need to turn your computer off at nights to keep it fair)

[matty-hodgson]

i bet it uses...

*hmmmmmm*

13.7kw/h?
is that a reasonable guess?

[timothius]

i bet it uses...

*hmmmmmm*

13.7kw/h?
is that a reasonable guess?

Way too high.

[Marcos]

Where can i get one of these meters for cheap? maplin do one for £28, another site does exact same one for £20

[moogle]

Way too high.

yea way way tooo high. thats nearly maxing the average house power on one socket!

[arthurleung]

PC is a Quad 6700 Extremem with 4 gig and 2 or 3 hard drives accoring to use.

I guess 220W idle and 310W full load (wouldn't really know without checking the spec)

22" Iiyama monitor

Probably 50W (Note my Dell 2001FP's PSU is rated for 90W)

Creative iTrigue speakers

Less than 10W

Dell Dual Core Lappy with 2 gig

20W if you idle, and perhaps 50W at full load

Phone Charger

It gonna take <10W, doesn't worth counting

Ikea Desk Lamp

9W

Which makes 350W or so with everything on.
One thing that you do use to save about 10W on your laptop is to undervolt it
That brought my laptop from 52W to 42W at full load.

[coco]

6pm: Sunday 27th May 2008.

I have attached the power meter to a multi plug, and will run all my PC stuff and work office equipment from it.

..onward. The meter is ticking

wow gotta get me a power meter so i can be a timelord aswell it's still april

[timothius]

Where can i get one of these meters for cheap? maplin do one for £28, another site does exact same one for £20

I got the exact same Maplin meter for £10 on ebay. (New as well).

[Zak33]

Hi guys.

Folding all night, but no gaming.

Here we are at 9:30 am, and I've used 3.13kWh partly cheap rate, so cost so far is 23p.
PC goes off now as I am going out, but will returmn by afternoon and back to PC and laptop work.

[Zak33]

Max Drain today:
PC folding on all 4 cores
Media Player running and firefox
Speakers
Mobile charging
Lap top on and working online, multiple apps
Desk Lamp on (not needed, going off after reading taken)

Draw: 368W to 370W

[Zak33]

i bet it uses...

*hmmmmmm*

13.7kw/h?
is that a reasonable guess?

that could turn out to be right matty dear chap.

Used over 3 kWh already.

[matty-hodgson]

that could turn out to be right matty dear chap.

Used over 3 kWh already.

and everyone said i was way way over..
looks like i'm gonna be way way under tbh..

[moogle]

and everyone said i was way way over..
looks like i'm gonna be way way under tbh..

13.7kw/h != 13.7kwh

I assumed you meant 13.7kw per hour

kw/h = kw h^-1
the / or power of -1 means per (physics), just like we have lets say a car travelling at 10m/s thats 10 metres per second etc..
physics stuff.

[matty-hodgson]

13.7kw/h != 13.7kwh

I assumed you meant 13.7kw per hour

no, i thought the unit was kw/h..
what i meant was kWh..

sorry guys, but yeah..
my guestimate could be quite close

[Zak33]

22 hours passed, and so far my PC and office hardware has cost me 40 pence to run.

That's more than I guessed to be fair. No wonder work likes me to "work" from home, and not in the office.