How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.

I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts most of the
time.

On Feb 8, 3:37�pm, Terry wrote:
How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.

I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts most of the
time.

in the winter the waste heat helps warm your home..........

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" wrote:

How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.

I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts
most of the time

in the winter the waste heat helps warm your home..........

Agreed.

I was amused to read the MagicJack thread where a couple of posters lamented
that it required leaving on the computer 24/7 - in this day and age of rising
utility costs! Horrors!

I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

In my previous, electrically heated home, there were six, 100-watt
incandescent lamps illuminating the play room in the unfinished basement
directly beneath the living room upstairs.

I never chased after the kids, nagging them to turn off these lights EXCEPT
when it was COOLING season. The light bulbs made GREAT heaters (with some
incidental, "waste" light) that kept the living room floor nice and warm.

People that believe a running, but unused computer is particularly wasteful
can't see the forest for the trees. More than the equivalent power
consumption can be offset by removing one load of clothes from the dryer AS
SOON as they are dry rather than letting the machine's timer run to the end.
Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.
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All projects too big

On Feb 8, 6:22�pm, Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article
,

" wrote:
How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.
I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts
most of the time
in the winter the waste heat helps warm your home..........

Agreed.

I was amused to read the MagicJack thread where a couple of posters lamented
that it required leaving on the computer 24/7 - in this day and age of rising
utility costs! �Horrors!

I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

In my previous, electrically heated home, there were six, 100-watt
incandescent lamps illuminating the play room in the unfinished basement
directly beneath the living room upstairs.

I never chased after the kids, nagging them to turn off these lights EXCEPT
when it was COOLING season. �The light bulbs made GREAT heaters (with some
incidental, "waste" light) that kept the living room floor nice and warm.

People that believe a running, but unused computer is particularly wasteful
can't see the forest for the trees. �More than the equivalent power
consumption can be offset by removing one load of clothes from the dryer AS
SOON as they are dry rather than letting the machine's timer run to the end. �
Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.
--
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JR

No project too small
All projects too big

another one is spending megabucks on a tankless water heater to
prevent standby losses, while all during the heating season the
standby losses help heat the home.

or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines. worse the machines are less reliable and cost
much more to repair

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another one is spending megabucks on a tankless water heater to
prevent standby losses, while all during the heating season the
standby losses help heat the home.

That depends on where the water heater is located;if it's out in your
garage,it's NOT heating your house. ("megabucks"???)

and during the summer,if indoors,the tank-WH puts a higher load on the air
conditioning.


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at
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On Feb 8, 7:11 pm, " wrote:
or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines.

Nonsense. A front-loader wrings out the water from the clothes much
more, leading to less drying time. In the winter, a clothes dryer
takes warm air from inside the house and dumps it outside. The less
time it runs, the better. So a front-loader saves you money there.

More importantly, a top-loader is a primitive form of "washing"
clothes, involving flapping an agitator in soapy water, and in the end
wearing clothes with half the wash detergent in them still. A front-
loader actually washes clothes. This is why the $4 machine at the
laundromat is a front-loader.

worse the machines are less reliable and cost
much more to repair

Nonsense. The early US-made front-loaders had problems, they were beta-
testing at the time. The Asian- and Europe-made ones did not, and the
current US ones are fine too.

On Feb 9, 1:14�pm, Nexus7 wrote:
On Feb 8, 7:11 pm, " wrote:

or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines.

Nonsense. A front-loader wrings out the water from the clothes much
more, leading to less drying time. In the winter, a clothes dryer
takes warm air from inside the house and dumps it outside. The less
time it runs, the better. So a front-loader saves you money there.

More importantly, a top-loader is a primitive form of "washing"
clothes, involving flapping an agitator in soapy water, and in the end
wearing clothes with half the wash detergent in them still. A front-
loader actually washes clothes. This is why the $4 machine at the
laundromat is a front-loader.

worse the machines are less reliable and cost
much more to repair

Nonsense. The early US-made front-loaders had problems, they were beta-
testing at the time. The Asian- and Europe-made ones did not, and the
current US ones are fine too.

you can buy a decent laundry pair washer and dryer for 500 bucks.

a front load pair probably 3 times that. so to ever save any money the
first thing you must do is save a grand on energy water etc.

that takes awhile and a friend who fixes appliances for a living and
owns the business says by the time you get near payback something will
fail on the machine.

maytags use a drum with intergrated bearing, cant just replace the
bearing need a whole drum assembly, over 300 bucks.

of course it kinda depends on utility costs in your area.

and dont forget the extra grand cost could of been invested elsewhere

On Feb 9, 12:14 pm, Nexus7 wrote:
On Feb 8, 7:11 pm, " wrote:

or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines.

Nonsense. A front-loader wrings out the water from the clothes much
more, leading to less drying time. In the winter, a clothes dryer
takes warm air from inside the house and dumps it outside. The less
time it runs, the better. So a front-loader saves you money there.

More importantly, a top-loader is a primitive form of "washing"
clothes, involving flapping an agitator in soapy water, and in the end
wearing clothes with half the wash detergent in them still. A front-
loader actually washes clothes. This is why the $4 machine at the
laundromat is a front-loader.


Can you prove any of these statements or are you just talking off
your .. ehm mouth?
A washer dryer combo forces you to serialize those activities, which
is enough for me to dismiss that nonsense ( i am using one of your
favorite words, see?)

Nexus7 wrote:

Nonsense. A front-loader wrings out the water from the clothes much
more, leading to less drying time. In the winter, a clothes dryer
takes warm air from inside the house and dumps it outside. The less
time it runs, the better. So a front-loader saves you money there.

This depends on if the front loader LASTS long enough
to recoup that premium cost

Nine did NOT. Wore out after 7 years and couldn't be
fixed with spending $400

On Feb 8, 7:11Â*pm, " wrote:
On Feb 8, 6:22�pm, Jim Redelfs wrote:





In article
,

" wrote:
How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.
I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts
most of the time
in the winter the waste heat helps warm your home..........

Agreed.

I was amused to read the MagicJack thread where a couple of posters lamented
that it required leaving on the computer 24/7 - in this day and age of rising
utility costs! �Horrors!

I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

In my previous, electrically heated home, there were six, 100-watt
incandescent lamps illuminating the play room in the unfinished basement
directly beneath the living room upstairs.

I never chased after the kids, nagging them to turn off these lights EXCEPT
when it was COOLING season. �The light bulbs made GREAT heaters (with some
incidental, "waste" light) that kept the living room floor nice and warm..

People that believe a running, but unused computer is particularly wasteful
can't see the forest for the trees. �More than the equivalent power
consumption can be offset by removing one load of clothes from the dryer AS
SOON as they are dry rather than letting the machine's timer run to the end. �
Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.
--
� � � � � �
JR

No project too small
All projects too big

another one is spending megabucks on a tankless water heater to
prevent standby losses, while all during the heating season the
standby losses help heat the home.

or spending thousands on a front load washer dryer pair......

the added cost of the unit, will never save money during the average
life of the machines. worse the machines are less reliable and cost
much more to repair- Hide quoted text -

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Gas tank water heaters loose most of their heat up the chimney.

Gas tank water heaters loose most of their heat up the chimney.- Hide quoted text -
\

true thats the case with ALL GAS HEATERS, although its not most heat,
since none are less than 50% efficent.

but combustion by products must go somewhere.

sure electric heaters are more efficent, and lack exhaust waste but
the electric costs so much more, gas is more cost effective

Jim Redelfs wrote:

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Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.

Not likely. A computer running 24/7 will use $100-$200 per year of
electricity. If one load of wash cost that much to dry, we'd have
heard about it.

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CJT wrote:
Jim Redelfs wrote:

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Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a
dryer, will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a
computer in its lifetime.

Not likely. A computer running 24/7 will use $100-$200 per year of
electricity. If one load of wash cost that much to dry, we'd have
heard about it.


For sure, numbers don't lie. One can rationalize whatever they like but
real data shows something a lot different.

Jim Redelfs wrote in
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I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

I shut mine down nightly;electrolytic caps in the power supply and
motherboard eventually degrade,their ESRs rise and put more strain on the
PS until something fails.
also,the bearings in the cooling fans wear out.
This PC I'm using had the microprocessor fan load the PS to where it would
not start.
A surplus fan from Skycraft cured that for $8.

--
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jyanik
at
kua.net

On Feb 8, 8:57�pm, Jim Yanik wrote:
Jim Redelfs wrote :



I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

I shut mine down nightly;electrolytic caps in the power supply and
motherboard eventually degrade,their ESRs rise and put more strain on the
PS until something fails.
also,the bearings in the cooling fans wear out.
This PC I'm using had the microprocessor fan load the PS to where it would
not start.
A surplus fan from Skycraft cured that for $8.

--
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jyanik
at
kua.net

frequent shutdowns lead to hard drive failures..........

" wrote in
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On Feb 8, 8:57�pm, Jim Yanik wrote:
Jim Redelfs wrote
innews:jim.redelfs-A9A9B
:



I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

Have you HAD the same PC for 15 years?? No.


I shut mine down nightly;electrolytic caps in the power supply and
motherboard eventually degrade,their ESRs rise and put more strain on
the PS until something fails.
also,the bearings in the cooling fans wear out.
This PC I'm using had the microprocessor fan load the PS to where it
would not start.
A surplus fan from Skycraft cured that for $8.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

frequent shutdowns lead to hard drive failures..........

define "frequent".

Hard drives wear out bearings,too.
and if your PC is "ON",any power loss harms the data on the HDs,damages the
disc surfaces when the head crashes on them.


--
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jyanik
at
kua.net

Jim Yanik wrote:
This PC I'm using had the microprocessor fan load the PS to where it would
not start.
A surplus fan from Skycraft cured that for $8.

How in the world did you find that?

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clifto wrote in
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Jim Yanik wrote:
This PC I'm using had the microprocessor fan load the PS to where it
would not start.
A surplus fan from Skycraft cured that for $8.

How in the world did you find that?


swapped out power supply,still had problem. replaced a couple of high ESR
caps on the motherboard,still had problem.Left off fan cable while messing
with PC,problem went away. Got new fan from Skycraft,end of problem.

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jyanik
at
kua.net

Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article
,
" wrote:

How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.

I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts
most of the time

in the winter the waste heat helps warm your home..........

Agreed.

I was amused to read the MagicJack thread where a couple of posters lamented
that it required leaving on the computer 24/7 - in this day and age of rising
utility costs! Horrors!

I haven't regularly shut down my computers for 15 years.

In my previous, electrically heated home, there were six, 100-watt
incandescent lamps illuminating the play room in the unfinished basement
directly beneath the living room upstairs.

I never chased after the kids, nagging them to turn off these lights EXCEPT
when it was COOLING season. The light bulbs made GREAT heaters (with some
incidental, "waste" light) that kept the living room floor nice and warm.

People that believe a running, but unused computer is particularly wasteful
can't see the forest for the trees. More than the equivalent power
consumption can be offset by removing one load of clothes from the dryer AS
SOON as they are dry rather than letting the machine's timer run to the end.
Hanging-out ONE load of laundry on a clothes line, rather than use a dryer,
will save more energy than is used by the idle running of a computer in its
lifetime.

Actually some might think that people who suggest leaving things on is
OK for whatever reason can't see the forest for the trees. What if
someone removed the clothes and turned off the computer?

Instead of just making up assertions like that think about what you
wrote. Can I suggest that either this hypothetical dryer would be using
monumental amounts of energy or the computer consumes the power of a
single LED for your assertion to be accurate. Gather some empirical
data and try to verify your assertion. Data I have collected shows that
a minimally used typical computer uses the same amount of energy in 15
hours as used by an electric dryer used to dry a typical load.

wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:37:12 -0500, George
wrote:

. Data I have collected shows that
a minimally used typical computer uses the same amount of energy in 15
hours as used by an electric dryer used to dry a typical load.

I was working on a dryer yesterday (GE) and I had my clamp on ammeter
on the leads watching the load. The motor side pulls a tad over 25a
and the heat only side pulls 22 and change (when the heater is on).
When the heat cycles off you only have the 3 and change on the motor
side. The heat is not on for the whole drying cycle. In fact, when it
is in "automatic dry" the timer only runs when the heat is off. The
thermostat is in the exhaust air stack and when the clothes are wet
the air is too cool to make the stat.
My PC, flat monitor ethernet switch, KVM switch, external modem,
speakers, DSL modem, RF transmitter, ink jet printer and scanner pull
between 1.5 and 1.85a depending on what I am doing.

Exactly, someone trying to rationalize something can really come to a
bogus conclusion without considering actual data. Excluding space
conditioning most household electrical energy consumption (and waste)
comes from the small things not the high wattage devices such as a dryer
or toaster. As they say slow and steady wins the race and it is very
true for the energy consumption race.

Terry wrote:

How about doing a test on how much your computer is drawing.

I am guessing the hottest setup uses less than 200Watts most of the
time.

But who has only one any more?

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