ziz a dumb question?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat May 1 19:27:58 UTC 2010


Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:

> On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> 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/


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