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| Thread ID: 115539 | 2011-01-22 23:22:00 | PSU Power Usage | icow (15313) | Press F1 |
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| 1171853 | 2011-01-22 23:22:00 | You know how psu's have a "w" number which equals the amount of power that it has/can take. Is there a way of measuring/seeing the amount of that number is being used? P.S sorry if that doesn't make sense I wasn't sure how to explain it. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1171854 | 2011-01-22 23:31:00 | You mean Wattage? Probably the easiest way to do that in realtime is to go and buy a plug-in power meter at your local supermarket or hardware shop. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1171855 | 2011-01-22 23:53:00 | I did see a "meter" at the Warehouse .... similar to a tap-on plug that goes ito the 3 pin wall socket and allows an appliance (heater, washing machine, dryer etc.) to then be plugged into that. It gives a reading of how much power you are using but couldn't say how accurate they'd be and can't remember what readings it gave. I think you were able to input the cost of a kWh - kilowatt hours - then it would tell you how many kWh you were using and also the cost. We were looking at getting a couple to see how much the kids were using their heaters but found out they had a reset button on them ... and knowing kids, they'd find it real quick ... :D |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1171856 | 2011-01-23 00:32:00 | Microsoft research has the "joule-meter application" (research.microsoft.com) that calculates PC power consumption (not sure how it works, I just remember article I read a while back). For costing you need know the unit price/kilowatt (or whatever) of your power supplier. PC power consumption article (www.labnol.org). | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1171857 | 2011-01-23 00:55:00 | Hi, I have a meter built into my PSU & it reads on average 106-110 watts, don't know if that helps. | jebby (4580) | ||
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