kondra.com — Have you ever wondered how much power that microwave takes to pop that bag of popcorn? What about your toaster or coffee maker? How much power does that 'energy efficient' refrigerator actually use? Here's a write up of perhaps the ultimate in home power monitoring hacks.
Jul 10, 2005 View in Crawl 4
bigbro69Jul 11, 2005
Great to look at, don't think I'd ever have the time to do this, and I'd be more likely to fry myself. Plus the fact it'd probably show that all of my computers being on 4/7 are the reason for the high electricity bills. =P
dvogtJul 12, 2005
You're exactly right... my biggest power consumer is my computer gear which is also on 24/7. After looking at the results for a while I switched from older dual-cpu boxes to lower power single cpu boxes and tried to consolidate server functionality. I Also started using vmware (great stuff by the way) to do virtual servers on the same hardware. I then switched out all my monitors for LCD's but it still adds up. I should have found a way to mount all the servers under the house to avoid the expense of cooling them (bit of a drag to crawl under the house to reboot a server I suppose).