On Monday 08 September 2003 10:39 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > Hmmm. I will try to answer all which did answer to my question. I am not > sure about how much a PC is burning, but I will try to illustrate the > situation: > > I live in a 2 rooms appartment. Am married and no kids. The heating was > also a shock, but in my city the heating costs are pretty high and I think > I can solve that by installing some auto thermal regulation. The shocking > part was the electricity bill. > > In one year according to the readings I burnt about 7791 Kwh!!! > Do you live in the UK? I have no reference to understand if that is high or not. I live in Phoenix Arizona and last year my average for the year was 1,739.94kw per month. That is roughly 20880 a year! Of course I live in the desert and I have a family of 4 and the house is 2600 square feet. I presume you must have extremely high rates where you are?
My thoughts are that if the electric bill is too much, you may not be able to afford a photo cell. Go to http://www.sierrasolar.com/index.html for an idea. But since I don't know where you are at, you may have to google for solar power in your area, or find out what the cost of your currency is compared to ours. The most likely scenario if the consumption is so high for your usage etc, is that the meter is incorrect. Ask them to replace the meter. It may be defective. > Cooking stove, fridge, waterheating for bathroom and kitchen, TV, and > dishwashing machine (mini version) run on electricity. But I don't think > we cook/wash/bathe/etc more than any regular family. The lightbulbs are > these funky fluorescent things which burn very little electricity (13W) and > give lots of light. The only thing which a normal/average family doesn't > have are 3 PCs (1 server + 1 for me + 1 for my wife) which run 24/7. So > that is why the idea that the PCs might be the prob. I called the supplier > and he offered to let me borrow a special tool which allows you to measure > the power consumption of electrical appliances and see which is the trouble > maker (in case there is only one). The supplier was shocked too and said > that my readings could be called "usual" only if I would have a family of 8 > living in my appartment.:/ I think I will do it, but in the meantime with > such an invoice I wanted to try to diminish whatever I can and thus also > the PCs uptime. Am not sure if I am depressed or shocked. It is the > beginning of the month and am already on minus with my bank account as > result as the yearly invoice for the differences between payments and burnt > KWh. :( So any suggestion, beside putting a hampster run, to diminish the > energy > consumption, would be welcome. I know this is slightly offtopic, but am > almost pulling my hairs here... It would be more of a slashdot.org subject, > but you guys always come up with cool ideas. :) > > Anyway, the solar voltaic cell sounds as a neat idea. How does that work, > how much would such thing cost, how big it is, how much power can it give > and how about nights? About the nights I suppose there are 2 main options: > 1. charge some sort of battery in the day in the same time with the usage > 2. make some sort of installation that would switch to socket electricity > as soon as the power from the solar cell isn't enough anymore. > > Both of the above ideas sound cool, but have no clue whatsoever how to do > it either way. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > For the time being I decided to switch to a different calculation mode for > the electricity from my provider which is normally used for firms, so that > my invoice level would sink. :/ > > Best regards, > Adrian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "lorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:42 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1 > > > On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:04 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Am back again with a small prob. :) After I saw the electricity invoice > > and > > > > recovered from the heart attack:) I decided I might want to stop > > > keeping > > my > > > > server/firewall online all the time. I only have a small server and is > > > mostly experimental and only for a few friends which mostly sleep at > > night. > > > > :) On the other hand, having to connect to it, shut it down and then > > having > > > > to wait till it starts when I need it again might not be something I > > want > > > > to do each day. :) So the last solution that crosses my mind is to make > > it > > > > go into standby. The problem is that I want it to go in standby when no > > > activity from it is required. No activity would mean no incoming > > requests > > > > from the clients inside the network. Is it possible to make my Mandrake > > 9.1 > > > > server go into standby only when no network traffic for like 15 minutes > > or > > > > so. On the other hand, will it wake up from standby if incoming network > > > traffic or do I have to move mouse/ hit any key on keyboard? When in > > > standby mode, will it drop the adsl connection or will it remain > > > online? How much (aproximately in percents) does the power need sink > > > when in standby mode? Thx in advance for your help. > > > > I think with the new motherboards that incoming modem rings will turn > > power > > > on, mouse movement, keyboard strokes, but I don't recall nic traffic with > > the > > > exception of wol frames. Because traffic is always coming through, it > > would > > > always be awake no? > > > > I'm very curious, is electricity that expensive where you are? It appears > > you > > > are across the big pond. Would a solar voltaic cell and battery be out of > > the > > > question to keep it running? Most only burn about 150watts to run just > > the > > > computer. ? > > > > > Best regards, > > > Adrian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- ---- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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