RESEARCH 》 Power consumption of my Home Lab devices for research
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| My Intel Celeron CPU 1037U Mini PC WAN Optimization Device | |||||||
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| My Acer Aspire 4810T Laptop | |||||||||
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* No Battery, so no charging.
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| NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS | |||||||||
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| APC BX600C-IN UPS - APC Back-UPS 600 | (UPS not powered-on but connected to live power socket) | ||||
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| APC BX600CI-IN UPS - APC Back-UPS 600 | (UPS not powered-on but connected to live power socket) | ||||
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| BenQ LED Monitor 24'' GW2470HM | |||||
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| LG LCD TV Monitor 23'' M237WA-PT | |||||||
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| Samsung LCD Monitor 22'' 2243NWX | |||||||
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Here is my power-consumption measurements of various devices deployed within my home lab. I measured via my kill-a-watt sort of power-meter which is fairly reliable and accurate. I checked its accuracy with various standard load such as Philips LED laps and other constant power-consuming devices to make sure that the power-meter is precise.
So far I maintained this data in my personal Google drive spreadsheet documents. But now I thought perhaps its good to share these numbers so that it is useful for various users to access their equipment such as:
- decide UPS and battery backup ratings
- off-grid solar power installations
- choose new upgraded hardware which consumes less power and deliver better performance such as SSD over traditional HDD, new CPU, new Monitor, new laptop, servers, desktops and so on. And discard obsolete old hardware.
- choosing the right PSU (power supply unit) for your desktop PC build
Before posting this article I shot a VLOG regarding the same and posted in my Youtube channel The Linux Channel. You can kindly watch the same:
Explore my lab's historical month wise power-usage trends: I started logging my entire lab monthly power-consumption readings. You can read the article HERE.
Off-Grid Solar Power System for Raspberry Pi: When you choose to use your Raspberry Pi device as your IoT based remote weather station or if you are
building Linux kernel (like kernel compilation) within the same, you need a good uninterrupted power source (UPS). But if you are using it on site or in some
research camping location you can choose to power your Raspberry Pi device with your custom off-grid solar power source. Kindly read my complete article about
the same HERE.
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