Kill-A-Watt: AMPs draw on PE2950r3

[Brian A. Seklecki]

For an 1st revision, 8th gen 2850:

mode | amps | pf 
-----------------
off  | .30  | 100
full | 2.2  | .20->.40
idle | 1.76 | .97

This is a single CPU 3.0gz Xeon with 2 gigs of ECC.

I was expecting the older P4-based/Prescot+Hyperthreading Xeons to be a
hell of a lot more power hungry, but the Chrysler analogy does not apply
here.

~BAS


On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:11 -0500, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jeff Macfarland
> <jmacfarland at nexatech.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Off:     0.25 amp, 0.35 PF
> >  Idle: 172.8 Volts, 1.70 amps, 0.56 PF
> 
> Wow.  That is an insanely bad power factor for recent equipment.  If
> it were truly that bad, Dell wouldn't be able to sell it in Europe
> where power factor correction is required, and a large installation of
> such machines would cause enormous problems.  Between that and the
> voltage reading, I'd say the meter doesn't work properly on 208V.
> 
> Thanks for looking into all of this for us, though.  I wish power
> figures for gear was more prevalent; most manufacturers list only
> maximums, or bury the info...
> 
> Brett
> 
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