[Gllug] OT: Burnt out power supply

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:03 +0100, Peter Ball wrote:
[snip]
> I've just been doing some power consumption tests because a customer was 
> complaining about their electricity bill.
> 
> Sample system based on 300w power supply, 2.0Ghz Intel Celeron, 512MB ram, 
> 40GB hd and comparison between 17" crt against 17" tft.
> 
> Power supply not connected to anything and just plugged into mains and supposedly 
> switched off pulled 12w = 105 kwh per annum doing nothing.

I've been wanting to do this sort of test for a while and there was a
useful article about it in today's Independent.  As a result I
discovered that Maplin do a suitable measuring tool for £25 and I've
ordered one.  There's also an interesting looking gadget at
www.electrisave.co.uk, but that's rather more expensive.

John

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