Re: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Is there a good place near Portsmouth, NH to recycle old CRTs? My home computer monitor recently died after 14 years of trusty service. I replaced this with an LCD monitor. Thanks, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc

Re: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

2005-04-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 17, 2005, at 13:26, Brian wrote: IMO, you can't really, truly, justify a purchase like that economically, environmentally, OR politically. Yeah, but it's sexy, saves desk space, and it's a good enough excuse for SWMBO. More practically, I've never had an LCD lose focus on me. I've scrap

RE: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

2005-04-17 Thread Brian
olitically. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Randy Edwards > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:03 PM > To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > Subject: Re: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT) > >

Re: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

2005-04-17 Thread Randy Edwards
> Compared to the cost of a few hundred bucks for a nice new panel display, > that doesn't exactly blow me away. Of course, there are other > factors in a panel, including physical space savings and waste heat [...] Your and Paul's analysis of the costs of the monitor are spot-on -- it's

Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

2005-04-17 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Paul Lussier wrote: Peter Dobratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a KDS 19" CRT that ran X at 1600x1200 under Debian unstable for many years. It's still a perfectly good monitor, but it draws close to 90 Watts of power If my calculations are correct, that's only .75 amps at