Re: Wireless thermostat

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even a fully loaded PC doesn't draw 200W.  My 500Mhz machines draw 80W in
standby and the newer, faster ones draw 130-170W.  A mini-ITX draws as
little as 15W.

--
Bobby G.

"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 9 Mar 2006 21:08:20 -0800, aaronfude@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I work 30 min away from home and have to stay at work unpredictably
> >long.
> >
> >Is there such a thing as a wireless thermostat - in the sense that I
> >can login to it and turn the heat on as I'm leaving work. (There are
> >wireless cameras, why not a wireless thermostat?)
>
> Yes, but the words you want to search on are remote controlled, or
> something like that, not wireless.  They have them that work with the
> internet and those that work with the telephone.
>
>
> If you have to leave the computer on all day long, it might cost as
> much as keepign the heat on low, with a setback thermostat to turn it
> up.
>
> How does one figure that.  200 Watt power supply (now theyt're bigger)
> times 10 hours equals 2 KwH = 25cents, going up to 44cents in June
> here.
>
> 400 watt power supply =88 cents a day.  not so much but for 250 work
> days that's about 220 dollars a year, plus wear on the harddrive. :)
> >
> >Many thanks in advance!
> >
> >Aaron Fude
>