From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 19:27:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9AF106566B for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 19:27:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B688FC18 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 19:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3641 invoked from network); 1 May 2010 19:27:56 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 May 2010 19:27:55 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA7250829; Sat, 1 May 2010 15:27:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 7161B1CCE4; Sat, 1 May 2010 15:27:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100501015705.GA46858@thought.org> <20100501041913.81a34394.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100501030350.GB46985@thought.org> <20100501052055.9def3399.freebsd@edvax.de> <4BDC09A8.4030405@onetel.com> <20100501155543.f909c863.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 15:27:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100501155543.f909c863.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Sat, 1 May 2010 15:55:43 +0200") Message-ID: <44ocgz5sni.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Polytropon Subject: Re: ziz a dumb question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 19:27:58 -0000 Polytropon writes: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? > > Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just > utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power > supply (and more), and the specs for my AS/400e 9406-170 say > 654 W with expansion unit (326 W without), measured kVA values > (according to manual) are similar. Weight is 70.5 kg, and > size is two big towers side by side. Knowing the capacity of the power supply (in this case, 700 watts) doesn't tell you any more about how much power it's using right now than knowing my car's top speed would tell you anything about how long it takes me to drive to work. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/