Date   : Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:55:41 GMT
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Them pesky case stickers (was 1MHZ SCSI/ATA board.)

On Mar 9 2006, 23:39, David Hunt wrote:

> A few years ago, I bought a wad of Dell PowerEdge 8450 (8 way 550MHz
P3
> Xeon) and 6450 (4 way 550MHz Xeon) boxes, thought it would be cool to
have
> my own server rack. I ran seti@... for a month or so, then I
casually
> looked at my electricity meter to see how much extra power I was
using.
> OHMIGOD - they were basically using 12kWh, for a month - 8,640kWh -
my
> electricity bill for a quarter was over £700 !!!

12kW (not kWh :-)) is 12000W, at a power factor of around 85% is about
14000VA, at 240V that's over 58A.  Most houses only have a 60A fuse.
 How did you manage that?

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York