[K12OSN] electricity use

[Accessys@smart.net]

what do they have running to the computer labs??? or the offices???


of course you could use old laptops and recharge them one at a time

Bob



On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Brad Thomas wrote:

> I am a social studies teacher and I've been building a lab in my classroom
> of old, discarded computers over the last two years (I was up to 20). I
> have been using small distros like DSL (DamnSmallLinux) to make them work,
> but was planning to switch to a k12ltsp setup before the end of the year.
> However, my principal just sent an e-mail last week instructing me to
> remove all but 6 of the computers from my room implying that they were
> using too much electricity. I just got back from a school planning council
> meeting where she and an assistant principal said that they called Dell
> (we buy all our new fat machines from Dell) and Dell said there should
> only be one computer per 20 amp circuit (which translates into one per
> room I think). As far as I can tell (using a Watts Up meter) one
> computer-and-monitor use a little more than 1 amp of power, so I don't get
> this. Can anyone out there give me some guidelines they go by? Or steer me
> to a good site? How much planning goes into ensuring proper electrical
> flow into your k12ltsp labs?
>
> Brad
>
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