People with kill-a-watt, How much is the electricity intake for your rigs?

[DaWhim]

My shuttle xpc is consuming 106watt. My laptop is consuming 17watt.

 

[Jugernot]

I bought one of those 2 years ago.... haven't used it since the day I bought it. Seemed to work well...

 

[oogabooga]

I plugged my fans/lamps into it

But no way am I plugging my computer into it.. I'm too scared to know

 

[mugs]

I haven't tried, but I was impressed to find out that it only takes 2 KWh per night to run the a/c in my bedroom.

 

[nineball9]

I measured my system a few years ago using a Kill-a-Watt. What surprised me the most was the amount of power my 2.1 speakers and little all-in-one printer use even when idle or off. Even when the printer is turned off, the power brick is drawing current; other wall-warts (modem, e.g.) and power bricks waste a lot of electricity even if the device is turned off.

 

[Jeff7]

262 watts, including the monitor. Damn thing doubles as a space heater.

Originally posted by: nineball9
I measured my system a few years ago using a Kill-a-Watt. What surprised me the most was the amount of power my 2.1 speakers and little all-in-one printer use even when idle or off. Even when the printer is turned off, the power brick is drawing current; other wall-warts (modem, e.g.) and power bricks waste a lot of electricity even if the device is turned off.

Yeah, that sucks. They're always warm when plugged in, even when they aren't connected to a device.
My speakers also use power when "off" - 6W. I had the subwoofer open to install a switch to turn the speaker on and off, so that it wouldn't always be generating super-powerful bass. I also installed a main on/off switch to shut the power off completely.

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
262 watts, including the monitor. Damn thing doubles as a space heater.

You gotta love when its 90 degrees inside your room and the computer is pumping out shit loads of heat.

 

[eelw]

My Q6600 with X1900 idles around 160W. At full load, it peaks around 255W.

 

[George P Burdell]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000426.html

 

[SketchMaster]

If I'm reading my UPS correctly, 205 Kw.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: eelw
My Q6600 with X1900 idles around 160W. At full load, it peaks around 255W.

Interesting numbers.

 

[Colt45]

less than the meter costs.

 

[dug777]

Let me check

Being Aussie, I've got a 'PowerMate'

 

[dug777]

With monitor, it idles at about 280W without s2kctl (k7 powersave program) running, about 250W with s2kctl running, and 342W under max load.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

think my MBP takes around 23w at idle, barely anything when just charging.

 

[Zolty]

Media center consumes 88 watts while playing a dvd.