[mythtv-users] Power recording rule for night time preference

[Johan]

Christopher Kerr wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> I discovered that my PC was the biggest power consumer in the household
>>> (actually 70% of my power was consumed by my PC).
>>>       
>> How did you work that out? I'd be interested in doing something
>> similar to see if my PC is a electricity hog too.
>>     
>
>
> A typical number for a combined BE/FE would be around 4-5kW hours per
> day. Adding more processor intensive jobs (say, transcoding) might
> bring this figure up to 7 or 8kW hours per day. If this constitutes
> 70% of anyone's power draw, I'd be pretty surprised - unless you have
> no fridge.
>   
My fridge is rated 300W, however during 24 hours it only consumed 0.4 kWH.
My PC is using 290W permanently (if not recording and throttled down) 
290*24 = 6.96 kW = 2548 kWh per year minimal.

I have no airco, and on a yearly use of 4000kWh 2548kWh is about 70%.

This means that I would pay around 500$ per year to run my FE/BE if 
night time power was not at 60% of the daytime price.

Johan