[SunRescue] An intriguing idea...

[Maarten Deen]

Dave McGuire:
> On April 11, Tim wrote:
> > by cake box do you mean IPC style?
> > Well..., I don't think you would get usable life out of it, those
> > machines aren't exactly green, and if it is running one of the older
> > disks, those things are power black holes.  If you had a software
> 
>   Oh good grief.  I had a loaded IPX run for nearly two days on a
> 1KVA UPS.  They practically run on brain current.

I just checked last night (I've got a nice power meter), and it gives 
34W for an IPC. That is practically brain current.
FYI: an ELC does 85W and a sun3-60 75W (150W including monitor)
The machines have a cos phi ranging from 0.45 to 0.7.

Maarten