Probably CA power pricesdreiter wrote:Well I'm not interested in arguing at all if that's your concern, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts. Are you upset at my comment or at CA electricity prices?bruce wrote:We could get into a long off-topic discussion about thatdreiter wrote:Here in CA it gets up to $0.30/kWh in the summer and ...but let's not. It won't help anybody.
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7im wrote:It was off topic to the hardware discussion, and there are several other threads where you could post or read that talk about conserving power, or ...
He was not upset ...
Right, right, and right.Nathan_P wrote:Probably CA power prices
Posting FAH's log:
How to provide enough info to get helpful support.
How to provide enough info to get helpful support.
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Ah, I see. Sadly that wouldn't work for me here since we already use LED for everything, we have no dishwasher, laundry washer or dryer, and our hot water is natural gas. The only electricity we use besides our LED lighting is the fridge, computer, TV, and AC/heating. And the AC is really the only real cost, over 3/4 of our bill in the summer.7im wrote: It was off topic to the hardware discussion, and there are several other threads where you could post or read that talk about conserving power, or offsetting power usage (replacing old conventional light bulbs with LEDs enough to match the increase used by folding).
He was not upset, just suggesting a better alternative.
A 900 W load would be 0.9*24*30=650 kWh just from the PC, and that ignores the associated cooling cost. Even at just $0.20/kWh, that's $130/mo just to run the PC. I hope to someday live in my own home where I can install a nice solar system to offset my usage, but it's not an option right now sadly.
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Oh I just saw that you live in So Cal too. Prices here are rough, but I suppose it's about similar to Europe/Aus/Japan. Time to move to Canada!bruce wrote:7im wrote:It was off topic to the hardware discussion, and there are several other threads where you could post or read that talk about conserving power, or ...
He was not upset ...Right, right, and right.Nathan_P wrote:Probably CA power prices
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Re: Open Air Dedicated Folder and Guide
The folding incentives that we aren't supposed to talk about here more than pay for electricity used.dreiter wrote:Ah, I see. Sadly that wouldn't work for me here since we already use LED for everything, we have no dishwasher, laundry washer or dryer, and our hot water is natural gas. The only electricity we use besides our LED lighting is the fridge, computer, TV, and AC/heating. And the AC is really the only real cost, over 3/4 of our bill in the summer.7im wrote: It was off topic to the hardware discussion, and there are several other threads where you could post or read that talk about conserving power, or offsetting power usage (replacing old conventional light bulbs with LEDs enough to match the increase used by folding).
He was not upset, just suggesting a better alternative.
A 900 W load would be 0.9*24*30=650 kWh just from the PC, and that ignores the associated cooling cost. Even at just $0.20/kWh, that's $130/mo just to run the PC. I hope to someday live in my own home where I can install a nice solar system to offset my usage, but it's not an option right now sadly.
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FldngForGrandparents
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Re: Open Air Dedicated Folder and Guide
My thread has been hijacked! By the way I am paying about $60/month extra for my dedicated folder running 24/7. I am waiting to see what the 1080Ti does and I might swoop up a couple of those for my second folder.
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ComputerGenie
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Re: Open Air Dedicated Folder and Guide
To further hijack it...FldngForGrandparents wrote:My thread has been hijacked! By the way I am paying about $60/month extra for my dedicated folder running 24/7. I am waiting to see what the 1080Ti does and I might swoop up a couple of those for my second folder.
I'll gladly trade you bills; I run ~80TH/s of ASICs, 1 dedicated folder, 4 PCs (one of which folds 60-90% of the time), and our average monthly electric bill is ~$1,400 during "winter rates".
