thats just my guess from its impact on the electric bill.. i basically 
looked at the bill over the better part of last year, and looked at the 
logs of what machines were up when, and tried to do something like a 
fourier decomposition of the changing electricity consumption to figure 
out what used how much. I even deliberately ran some machines with no 
work for them to do to try to get more of the set-space to compare 
against. my best guesses are:
dec3000/600,288MB,3*st15150 disks,vt420 = ~400W (!)
uvaxIII,40MB,4*wren7,CQD420,DELQA,DHV11,TK50,VT320,VT420 = ~500W (!!)
ds5k240,480MB,2*hawk,VRT19 = ~290W (thats more like it)
vax4600,192MB,delqa,CQD423,2*barracuda4 = ~250-300W
VS3100/48,24MB,1 disk = ~100W

isildur

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:07 PM, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > it's about 12c/kwh in Pittsburgh. roughly translates to a microvax-3
> > costing somewhere a bit over $40 a month to run.
> 
>    That's gotta be one beefy MicroVAX-3...something like four amps?  My 
> fairly-well-stocked MicroVAX-4000/400s each pulls less than two amps.  
> Granted they're much newer than a -3 but still..
> 
>         -Dave
> 
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