Saturday 6 September 2008

Power Consumption of Computer Equipment and Household Appliances

Here is a list of the power consumed by random computer equipment and appliances littering the house:

AG Neovo F-419 19" LCD
30 W
Netgear Gigabit Switch
6 W
Vigor 2800 Router
10 W
IBM X60 power supplydisconnected2 W
IBM X60 Tabletcharging35 W

booting60 W

idle20 W

80% CPU35 W

standby3 W
VT520 terminal
30 W
Core 2 Duo 1.6Gz/3HD Server
100 W
HP ZX6000 2xItanium Workstation
370 W
Cambridge Audio Subwoofernormal15 W
Cambridge Audio Ampnormal30-40 W
Arcam Alpha 9 Ampquiet to loud20-65 W
Sky+standby18 W

on22 W
Playstation 3standby4 W

idle110 W

in game135 W
Kettle
2500 W
Toaster
1550 W
Panasonic 50" Plasmastandby4 W

on300-500 W
Dell 37" LCD TVstandby3 W

on180 W
Bedside light
20 W
VAXstation 4000/VLC
idle
45 W
VAXstation 4000/90
idle
106 W
DEC 3000/600 AXP
idle
225 W
AlphaServer 300 4/266
idle
100 W
Digital 21" monitor
on
110 W
DS10L Alpha 1U Rackmount
idle
176 W
Quad Core 2 4GB Linux Server
idle
110 W
DECserver 90TL
on
10 W
CentreCOM MR820TR Router
on
10 W


Notes: most appliances seem to consume about 4 watts on standby. Power adapters that are plugged in but not connected to anything still draw about 2 W. The X60 provides a very good performance to power consumption ratio! The ZX6000 workstation doesn't!

Preconceptions: I thought the audio amp and subwoofer would use much more electricity. Clearly, they use more the louder the sound output but the average consumption will remain low.

1 comments:

Dale Goodfellow said...

Thank god I don't have a toaster!