[ale] OT: Calculating PC power consumption

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:41 pm, John Wells wrote:
| I'd like to get a rough idea of how much these servers (particularly the
| web server and dns server) cost me in $$ from power consumption on a
| monthly basis. ?I can't imagine it's overwhelming, but it'd still be nice
| to know.

This is _relatively_ simple.

You need an amp meter, which is not to be confused with a volt/ohm
meter (VOM). An amp meter hooks around the hot wire the way a padlock
hooks around something.  It will tell you how many amps each box is
sucking. Once you know the actual amp load the math is simple.

Sean



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