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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 09:32 |
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GeoffR
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Robert wrote: I am trying to trace the hole in my electric consumption. About 55% of my entire home electric consumption is consumed by my main computer and it's ancillaries. I feel that is disproportionate and not really acceptable. I am on a quest to identify the culprit and reduce the consumption to more acceptable levels.Unless you have a piece of equipment that must be kept running, knock the power off at the distribution unit (consumer unit, fuse box or whatever you want to call it) then observe the electricity meter. If there is still a load get on to the supplier and find out who, or what, else is connected to your meter.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 11:26 |
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Robert
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Have re-wired entire house myself, it was very dodgy... My Landlord is an electrician and signed it off for me, all is well with the wiring. Previously there were several earth leakage issues. I have separate meters for my computers and shed. I have just created a portable Watt hour meter to test individual items. We are having great fun going round testing the individual items of equipment to see what range of consumption they have. My 'office' has a dedicated supply from the circuit board and I have a meter on that. I take weekly meter readings of the suppliers meter and my own sub circuit meters. I only became acutely aware of the computers apparent thirst after my last(summer) bill, which has raised my concern and led to my investigation. The Mac Pro 5.1 seems to consume between 200 and 300 Watts. The 28" LED screen 22-25 Watts and my 25"LCD Samsung screen about 45-50 Watts That alone is going on for 350-400 Watts. The Mac Pro consumes ~1 Watt in sleep mode. I also have an ageing UPS, I am wondering if that is becoming inefficient and wasting power. It must be at least ten years old. It's an APC 1500 I bought new because I was suffering with brown outs at my last place. By comparison my G5 21" iMac is consuming between 95 and 130 Watts depending on idle or working, 4.7 asleep. Over the last three weeks my main computer consumed 26, 24 and 30 kWh respectively. This is an Excel graph of my allocated usage this year in kWh. The computer proportion up to week 25 is estimated from the average since week 25 to last week. Higher usage correlates with school holidays... I do have a TV which the boys like to watch but is only used by them. That will account for some of the unallocated usage. I am considering reviving one of my Mac mini's which have fallen into disuse since the Mac Pro came along. Use the Mac mini for the casual use, internet etc and keep the Mac Pro exclusively for image and video processing. I don't rule out a newer iMac perhaps next year for the casual use and internet... Attachment: Screen Shot 2018-08-08 at 17.06.11.jpg (Downloaded 15 times)
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 12:12 |
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jk
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Both my two MacPro units use a lot more electricity than the MacMini Server. My MacMini 2012 i7 quad server uses significantly less electricity than my 8core MacPro 3.0 GHz. This s the reason why I have moved to MacMinis. However the latest MacMinis since 2012 have been 'deliberately' crippled so they should compete with the iMac and MacPro. My next purchase will be a replacement for my Macbook Air i7. Macbook Pro i7 2017, probably 15" screen as it is slightly higher resolution.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 12:16 |
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jk
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In my opinion an iMac is a wasteful configuration as the screen outlasts a machine if you buy a top quality Dell or Eizo screen.
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 12:29 |
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GeoffR
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I rarely use my iMac unless I want the bigger screen. I spend most of my time using a 2011 MacBook Pro 15" I7.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2018 16:02 |
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novicius
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I Hope You`ll get it Sorted soon Robert , Let us know how it`s going.
____________________ Back in Danmark I do not use my equipment to make photo`s .. I take photo`s to use my equipment The better I become at photography,the better my camera gets. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2018 20:50 |
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novicius
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Robert, have you found the cause of that exessive energy consumption ?
____________________ Back in Danmark I do not use my equipment to make photo`s .. I take photo`s to use my equipment The better I become at photography,the better my camera gets. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30th, 2018 04:43 |
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Robert
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Thank you Novicus for reminding me, especially at the end of the year. I have started a new thread, this is way off topic and (perhaps?) merits a thread of it's own. Link to new thread: http://nikondslr.uk/view_topic.php?id=1627&forum_id=6
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