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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

According to my calibrated Tasmota plug, mine is guzzling about 160 Watt every hour, with energy costs sitting at (iirc) 0,38€/kWh. I really gotta take the time and track down who the worst offenders are some day....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

May I ask how you are able to calculate this? Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't want to play this game...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Son, if you’re looking at power costs you’re in the wrong sub.

/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Everything running I’m sitting at 392w

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

~4 Amps @220V last reading on the stabilizer.
Costs around 15~20 USD/month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have any base fees in your bill?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Running 5 dell r730XD with a ton of networking gear and ip cameras, I'm pulling about 5000 watts or 120kwh a day. Roughly $600 a month in power. YIIIPPEEEEEE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What software is this? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

50W - $3 a month

~$0.08 per kW

That’s damn cheap. I am sitting at ~15W for 0.33€ per kW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Approx 190W 24/7 and that's CAD $14 per month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ok.. this may be a dumb question, but what software is OP running to create those graphs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

About 3000W ~ 400 Euros a Month in Germany.

~0.2€/KwH Day

~0.15€KwH Night

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

257kWh this month, or about $30 of electricity where I live.

This includes my entire server rack so not just specifically my server costs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

3 UPS's read 350ish Watt all day 24/7/365 and thats just from my main rack

Add another 400 watts for my proxmox cluster (5 node one being an ML360g6 for 200watts)

And then another 150ish watts for my computer desk with 2 laptops and 6 monitors

Did i say i live in an apt and DONT pay for electric :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Instead of sharing power usage, share the equipment you're using to lower Watt usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mine is about 600w and is mostly powered by solar but if it weren’t would cost me $13 at USD0.03/kwh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

130w average usage for me. Works out at roughly £28/month (damn UK energy prices).

That 130w includes the server, switches and waps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Getting my info from HWMonitor as I can't find a better option without buying a hardware solution.

CPU: around 15W DRAM: around 10W GPU: around 60W if I'm reading that bit right...

Total (and adding a bit for other components and PSU efficiency losses): around 115W

Over a (30 day) month that would be 82.8kWh or £26 a month (actually a bit less than this as I'm on an economy 7 tariff which halves the costs per kWh overnight, I went with worst case as the server uses more energy during the weekend days).

Would be interesting to boot up the old server and check use there, willing to bet a dual Xeon X5670 machine with spinning rust for storage would be far higher than the current Xeon E5 2690 v4 with M.2s in there (a quick Google search indicates 174W for a machine with less hardware than my old server, at idle)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

About 250w. Cost of power on average 5 cents (€) per kWh. Often much lower than that. Last week it was negative. Don’t really care about the cost of electricity. 🇫🇮

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ha mine is 10x that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What are you using to view and chart your power usage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mine is sadly over an order of magnitude higher than this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

About 300W, ~7kWh a day, costs me about $80 AUD a month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Way beyond. Germany.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please share your setup that you've used to achieve these figures. I am interested!

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