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From: jrr@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Power Supply Calculation:
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Date: 16 Jun 89 20:13:15 GMT
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In article <6566@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) writes:
>I like to know how many kilowatts I consume and how much it would cost
>me given the following configurations:
>
>a) 220V power supply for my 386 PC,
I assume you mean 220W.
 
I have a related question:  Just because a power supply is rated at
220W, I don't think that is what it is actually using.  Certainly a 
typical outlet could be considered a 1650W power supply, but the amount of
electricity used depends on what's hooked to it.  Does anyone know
what a typical PC actually consumes?  Or the power consumption of the motor
that keeps the hard disk spinning (which I would guess to be the major
power sink)?

- Jim