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Power

1:51pm, Wednesday 14 March 2007

A co-worker lent me a plug-in power meter and I spent an evening measuring stuff...

	standby	on
CD player/amp	7W/15VA	15W/22VA
tape player	3W/7VA	5W/7VA
MD recorder	7W/11VA	10W/11VA
Freeview box	5W/14VA	6W/14VA
CRT TV	2W/3VA	60W/78VA
VCR	3W/7VA	12W/22VA
DVD player	7W/14VA	15W/29VA
100Mbit switch		5W/11VA
WY-60 terminal		25W/44VA
Sun Sparcstation LX		37W/63VA
N.I.C.		41W/70VA
14" CRT monitor		60W/100VA
17" TFT monitor	2W/7VA	39W/66VA
PC: Athlon 1.5GHz	4W/11VA	110W/170VA
electric "tube" heater		220W/220VA

I was slightly surprised to see that the TV/hi-fi/etc in the living room consume 34W in total when they're not actually doing anything.

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