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Monkeh:

--- Quote from: Electroplated on September 28, 2022, 08:06:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on September 28, 2022, 06:59:14 pm ---There's a reason I'm ebay hunting for equipment to replace my VM host. 155W idle at 33.86p/kWh hurts.

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I grabbed a HP Elite 8300 SFF PC i5-3470 to use as my cctv / server, I'm used a SFF dell with the same cpu but the HP would be better due it its intel nic. ( I use pfsense for a firewall and its quirky with realtek nics ) Not sure what your needs are for VM but there are a few Elite 8300 SFF on fleabay, they make decent servers and are pretty quite so long as the psu is dust free, the front cover / bezel clips off and can be fitted with filter foam to keep a lot of dust out, air runs from front to back on them.

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Tad too crusty, but right idea.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 28, 2022, 10:15:38 pm ---Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really. ;D

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Every watt is sacred.

I remember ads on TV telling us to burn power like fools.
Kasper:

--- Quote from: Electroplated on September 28, 2022, 08:22:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kasper on September 28, 2022, 07:40:16 pm ---When you turn off all your little 'heaters', does your heating bill go up? Or for those in warmer climates, does your a/c bill go down?

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Over here when we notice the effect of turning off mini room heaters the men put on thicker socks and some of the less hardier women stop shaving their legs  :)

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Any good sock stocks out there?  I think sellers of sweaters, tea, and similar items might do well this winter.
Electroplated:

--- Quote from: Kasper on September 29, 2022, 12:42:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Electroplated on September 28, 2022, 08:22:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kasper on September 28, 2022, 07:40:16 pm ---When you turn off all your little 'heaters', does your heating bill go up? Or for those in warmer climates, does your a/c bill go down?

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Over here when we notice the effect of turning off mini room heaters the men put on thicker socks and some of the less hardier women stop shaving their legs  :)

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Any good sock stocks out there?  I think sellers of sweaters, tea, and similar items might do well this winter.


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I'm going to do well this year that's for sure, all those little bits of fleece I collected from farm fences over the last year will be turned into socks and bobble hats, teasel and card the wool, spin it to thread then onto the wooden knitting contraption, then sell them on fleabay.
Electroplated:

--- Quote from: james_s on September 28, 2022, 09:39:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Electroplated on September 28, 2022, 06:55:33 pm ---Other things that are now turned off, the new washing machine that goes into sleep mode after playing a fancy tune, using 8 watts, the 2 watt cooker clock and the fake electric fire that used half a zillion LED's and a motor to produce a crap flame effect, when on it used 40 watts just for the flame effect, it was rapidly replaced with a more wallet friendly led effect using fading and flickering LED's, and some ceramic logs, it now uses 5 watts and is actually better to look at and far brighter.

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The whole point of an electric fire is to produce heat. All of the energy going into those zillion LEDs turns into heat, so you're not really saving anything by replacing it. Unless that is you only want the fake fire effect and don't care about actually heating the room.

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We sat around this fire last year and we still got frostbite, we even tried turning it on to no avail. Keep in mind this fake fire was to create a cheap illusion of a fire, not warm up anything, we burn wood for that, we did try burning peat one time but he didn't burn that much.
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