Assuming the ammeter on the side of my house is correct, a=20
BA123+ka650+40MB core (2*16M+1*8M) + CMD CQD420 + 4 wren 7's + DHV11 +=20
DELQA + VT320 + VT420 is about $42 a month here, or pretty close to 500W.=
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A DS5000/240 + VRT19 +ba42/2*3.5" drives seems to cost about 25/mo to=20
run, or use about 290W.=20

isildur

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:00:20PM -0400, Shengchao Li wrote:
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> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > Note that electricity is very cheap up here, end-customer price is
> > > only about 20-30 =F6re/KWh, which should be around 2-3 cent/KWh.
> > >
> > > Otherwise we wouldn't have all those machines ;-)
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> > Hydropower is cheap... and clean... and safe
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> unfortunately the water causes vaxen to short out and the salmon
> complain.
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> sweden generates quite a bit of electrity by nuclear reactors.  perhaps
> it would be possible to fit a small one into a VAX?  self-powering for
> hundreds of years.  perhaps sokolov would be interested.  ;)
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> here in the pacific northwest US, residential electricity (mostly
> hydropower) is close to $0.08/kWh, and I calculated it would cost me
> approximately USD $30 a month to run my =B5VAX-II, assuming it were
> drawing its full rated load.  this reminds me I need to build an
> amperage load box and calculate how much my hobby is truly costing me.
> :)
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> --=20
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
>     "i'm convinced that the cray cabinet has an outlet for plugging in
>     welding attachments."  --  Skeezics Boondoggle, on the cray CS6400
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