Just fyi, Watts is a measure of power, and WattHours is power over time. So your home network and server consume 130w, which would be 130wh after an hour, or 3120wh after a day. The chest freezer would be 400wh in a day, rather than 400w in a day.
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rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yeah, energy monitoring ruined several things for me. Can’t let my PC idle anymore, can only turn on the dishwasher when the sun is shining, need to explain regularly to my wife, why our home network and server infrastructure consume 130 Watts per hour…
The damn freezer consumes only 400 Watts per day while Network infrastructure, server, Wallpanels and KNX consume 3 Kilowatts.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Easy to miss typing in a hurry too. I just did it above.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Thanks for the heads up, I often let the time slip when casually talking about stuff like this.
Actually the server and network consumes 130Wh or around 3120Wh a day, while my freezer consumes 400Wh per day or around 16Wh. That’s also the reason why I was shocked about the consumption, as you would guess a freezer takes more.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve got a decent handle on my electric bill, I already have it set to “equal pay”, so I pay roughly the same amount every month, which includes my server cluster.
I did some quick math, and my PC’s estimated usage for a month is ~70 kW/h, which is ~$10 in my area. My last power bill was 1,145 kW/h total.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
70 kW is 16€ where I live and I have around 4000 kW per year.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nice!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
There is a reason people opt for old desktop CPUs and SSD’s
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Part of why I’m going with the ‘T’ variant of the Pentium G4560 on my custom NAS build.