From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 21 4:18:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (wandering-wizard.cybercity.dk [212.242.44.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B424B37B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8L7dHN03241; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:39:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Burton Cc: Lee Weng Seng , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Power consumption In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:21:39 PDT." <20000920212139.A72859@slick.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <3239.969521957@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20000920212139.A72859@slick.earthlink.net>, David Burton writes: >No easy answer for this question other than using a wattmeter or ammeter >with a logging feature taking logs over a few days of normal use and averaging >that would give you the best estimate of power consumption. I faced somewhat the same problem as the original requestor. I found a power meter which had a pulse output. The obvious result can be seen here: http://firtal.freebsd.dk/power/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message