Saturday 01 Sep 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

I just ate an entire Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Excuse me while my pancreas explodes…

Apparently a full wash cycle on the dishwasher uses 1.17 kWh of power. (It idles at 3 W, and while I was watching it went up as high as 170 W. However, apparently there’s a heating step which I didn’t see, so I’m presuming that’s where all the power gets used. But for that it would be lower power than the clothes washer. But the dishwasher fills using only cold water, while the clothes washer has a connection to the hot water system…)

PS. I make my therapist laugh. Like a little schoolgirl. Should I be concerned?

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Monday 27 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

I turned the toaster on. The meter jumped straight to 2,100 W. In the time it took to make my toast, the toaster used 0.04 kWh of power. Eeek! This was with the toaster set to toast the bread. For some reason, all toasters come with a setting to burn the bread to a horrible crisp that nobody would ever eat. We don’t know why…

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Monday 27 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

The saga continues!

It turns out that running Counter-Strike: Source still doesn’t put my PC over the 200 W mark. I’ll have to investigate loading the CPU. (POV-Ray?) Anyway, I played CS:S for about 2 hours, and this used 0.17 kWh.

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Sunday 26 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

Yesterday I bought a device which enables me to discover how much power an item is using. I’m now frantically testing everything in sight!

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