[Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap asterisk box

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:25, woody+asterisk at solutionsfirst.com.au wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Chris Albertson
> > Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 4:32
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap asterisk box
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > What I'm finding is that the PCs are so cheap that the cost of
> > electric power to run them is now a large part of the cost.
> > (assume 0.20/kwh times 200W times 365 days = $350.  So you
> > pay for the PC again every year in electric power to run it.
> > Worse.  In an office with airconditioning _all_ of that PC's
> > 200W goes to heat and your A/C unit will use about 220W of
> > power to remove that 200W of heat.)
> > and at a small office they will not have a server room so noise
> > from the fan is an issue.
> 
> Are you sure the computer uses all the Power all the time?
> I would have thought that 200W was the peak, not the average.
> 
> I guess the only way to measure it is to watch your home's power meter after
> you've turned off everything else :-)


Here is something a lot easier to deal with.
http://www.safehomeproducts.com/SHP/SM/Electricity_Monitor.asp
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>