On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:38 PM, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 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

   Wouldn't it be easier to just use an ammeter?

        -Dave

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