I got a new device (kill-a-watt) that measures watts/amps/volts and decided to measure the watt usage of lots of devices I had access to through friends and family. Here are my findings:
All numbers below are in watts
Microwave: Idle - 2, Door Open - 35, Surface light - 74, Fan on high - 126, Fan on low - 100, Regular heating - 1635.
Torche Lamp w/100w bulb & dimmer switch: Low dimmer - 67, High dimmer - 98.
19" Viewsonic monitor: On - 121.
Dell 15": Orange power save light on - 1, Powersave menu on screen - 63, on - 67.
Motorola HD cable box: Plugged in turned off - 23, Powered on - 24.
DVD player: Plugged in turned off - < 1, Powered on - 10.
Larger Stereo Reciever: Plugged in turned off - < 1, Powered on - 53.
Smaller Stereo Reciever: Plugged in turned off - < 1, Powered on - 28.
65" TV: Plugged in turned off - 5, Powered on - 192.
15 year old 20" TV: Plugged in turned off - 11, Powered on - 75.
Ipod charger: Plugged in charging - < 1
8 port switch : Plugged in - 6
Cable modem:Plugged in - 5
Now for different types of computers
------------------------------------------- 1 - Opteron 265 Dual-core 1 - SuperMicro H8DA8 2 - 1G 400MHz DDR ECC RAM 1 - Areca ARC-1160 SATA 16 Port RAID Card 1 - AIC RMC3E2-XP Case 16 - SATA HD's 1 - PATA HD ------------------------------------------- Powered Off - 22W Peak power on (watts) - 733W Peak power on (amps) - 6.1A Going into BIOS - 259W In the BIOS - 390W Booting into the OS - 380W Login prompt - 380W 2 files b'zipping - 405W 3 files b'zipping - 430W Avg working amps - 3.75A Peak working amps - 4A ----------------------------- 1 - Pentium 4 3Ghz 1 - ASUS P4P800-E 9 - PATA HD's 2 - 512M DDR 266Mhz RAM 1 - 3ware 7500 RAID card 1 - Gforce 4 Mx Video card ----------------------------- Powered Off - 11W Peak power on (watts) - 281W Peak power on (amps) - 2.35A Peak Load - 230W Avg working amps - 1.75A Peak working amps - 1.9A ----------------------------- 2 - Pentium Xeon 3Ghz 1 - Supermicro X5DP8-G2 4 - 2G DDR 266Mhz RAM 5 - 15,000 RPM SCSI Drives 1 - PATA 7200 RPM HD ----------------------------- Powered Off - 12W Peak power on (watts) - 343W Peak power on (amps) - 3.5A Peak Load - 385W Peak working amps - 3.5A ----------------------------- 2 - Opteron 275 Dual-core 1 - SuperMicro H8DA8 4 - 2G 400MHz DDR ECC RAM 5 - 15,000 RPM SCSI Drives 1 - PATA 7200 RPM HD ----------------------------- Peak load.- 370W Peak amps - 1.9A ------------------------------ 1 - Athlon X2 Dual-core 3800+ 1 - Asus A8V 2 - 1G DDR 500 Ram 1 - Geforce 4200 TI AGP 1 - SB Live Soundcard 1 - Antec Lanboy Case 1 - PATA 7200 RPM HD ------------------------------ Powered Off - 7w -9w BIOS - 103w Booting CD - 85w KDE Desktop - 107w 1 file Bzipping - 144w 2 files Bzipping - 160w --------------------------------- 2 - Intel PIII 933 Mhz 1 - Generic sound card 1 - Adaptec 160U SCSI controller 1 - 7200 U160 SCSI HD 2 - 1G PC133 DIMM ECC RAM 1 - Intel Server Mobo 1 - Gforce 4 MX Video card --------------------------------- Powered Off - 4w BIOS - 95w Booting - 60w HD Check during boot - 67w Login/Desktop Screen - 62w 1 file Bzipping- 95w 2 Bzip's - 108w 2 files Bzipping and hd max - 111w ------------------------------------- Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop plugged into wall. 1 - 17" UXGA screen 1 - 5400 RPM HD 1 - Pentium M Dothan, 2.0GHZ, 533 FSB 2 - 256 533Mhz DIMMS ------------------------------------- Booting - 54w Login screen - 36w Desktop - 51w Desktop moving window - 64w 1 file Bzipping - 75w Playing video file - 59w ------------------------------------- 1 - Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Mobo 1 - P4 Prescott 3 Ghz 1 - Nvidia Gforce4 MX 1 - SB Live soundcard 1 - PATA CDROM 2 - 512Meg DDR 400 Ram ------------------------------------- Powered off - 3w BIOS - 141w Booting of CD - 150w Knoppix Desktop - 103w Moving window - 130w 1 file bzipping - 175w ------------------------------------- 1 - Abit Pentium mobo 1 - Pentium 120Mhz Processor 1 - Cheap vid card ------------------------------------- Boot prompt - 31w ------------------------------------- Dell workstation 1 - PIII 550Mhz 1 - Dell mobo 1 - PATA HD 1 - CDROM 1 - Cheap vid card ------------------------------------- Login prompt - 41w Processor pegged - 58w ------------------------------------- 1 - Gigabyte GA7dxr mobo 1 - Athlon XP 2600 CPU 1 - CDROM 1 - Nvidia Gforce4 MX 1 - PATA 160Gig HD 1 - 1 SBLive soundcard 2 - Happauge 150's 1 - 3com 905b network card ------------------------------------- Booting linux - 225w Login prompt in X - 216w In program MythTV idle - 218w Recording 1 program - 179w 1 recording 1 comm skipping - 205w 2 recording and comm skipping - 207w
