How to conserve electric current???

@Zaphan (710)
Philippines
July 5, 2011 10:44pm CST
Hi guys! I have small business here in our place, a computer shop compose of 5 units and I am trying to figure out how to conserve electric current when using my computers, I would love to know what you are doing in order to conserve your electric usage? Thank you guys! hope you can give your idea and opinion on this.
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@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
6 Jul 11
Well computers draw a very little amount of Electric Current to give you some known facts about computers it cost you more to run your Refrigerator than it does to run your computer. I think it cost like $0.000075 or something like that every day to run your computer. But if you are looking to save some electricity then you can one make sure that it goes into a screensaver mode and goes to standby. Also another good method to use is have the monitors brightness not all the way up unless you have to. The other thing is computers draw a little more power during startup as it has to kick everything on and start spinning the hard drives but this is only for a few seconds and well the jury is out on which is better on the whole keeping your computer on 24/7 or having it power on and off. Most say it doesn't make much of a difference with most modern computers as in the last like 10 years. As they are designed better and don't have the issues that the first few generations of PCs had. But really if you want to save money on you electric bill you would be much better to look at some of your other appliances as they draw far more power than your computer does.
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
7 Jul 11
Yeah it will be just fine I mean as long as these computers aren't from like the 90s you will be just fine I mean I leave my iMac on 24 hours a day for most of the week then I will shut it down for a while. I would say if you want to conserve when you turn off the computer you can turn off the monitors if they are CRT and not LCD or LED. I mean computers are the cheapest electric device that you most likely own as far as current drawn as well it draws the same amount of current no matter how much it is on. It like 120 volts of draw from you outlet in the United States any way your refrigerator draws far more than that when it has to cool down the things inside of it. I mean an AC does too. So really these would be things that draw far more energy than a Computer will. I mean unless your computer is a Mainframe then it would draw more power than an AC and a refrigerator otherwise you are good.
@Zaphan (710)
• Philippines
6 Jul 11
Is it fine to leave the computer on for 15 hours straight rather than turning it off because it draws more power in start up when you turn it on? will I conserve on that case?
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
6 Jul 11
Once the system and monitor are switched on the system draws power and meter ticks on. There is a provision through control panel to use some power saving methods. If system is not in use it can automatically go into standby after a certain period, both monitor and the CPU. That is the only best way to curtail power consumption when the system is not in use.
@Zaphan (710)
• Philippines
6 Jul 11
when you switch the system does it pull a greater amount of energy or not?? cause what I do here is if no player is on the pc I shut it down and turn it on when there is a player.
@padu19 (1441)
• India
6 Jul 11
Hi, I would first like to ask if you keep the systems in standby or hibernate mode. Or rather, do you allow the users to just lock/log off the system and leave for the day? If so, the first thing that you can do to conserve energy will be to shut down the systems. However, not always it will be possible to shut down the systems. So, set a screensaver for all the systems, preferrably a screensaver that has less/no animations. This will reduce the energy used by monitor and also save the life of monitor. Hope this helps. Have a great day!!
@Zaphan (710)
• Philippines
6 Jul 11
nope I shut if off after the player ends his time, but what crosses my mind is when I switch on the system does it pull a greater amount of electricity of not?
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
10 Jul 11
One way I am very strick about saving electricity is not to have any equipment that uses electricity ON while I am not using it. Keeping it ON while idling is a huge waste of energy. So, that is true for computers or lightings in the rooms. I would not keep a light ON unless I needed it.
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
9 Jul 11
What is your main reason for wanting to conserve electric current? I'm guessing that because you own a small business, your only concern is saving money... am I right? In that case, why not, in the spirit of small business, generate your own electricity? It is very cheap to do so & very simple too. A ten year old school girl built her own device by herself in 2006 which was so successful it was published in the local paper. We should each generate our own electricity & live within the means that we can individually successfully do so. We can very simply & for a very small cost in junk-box parts, achieve this for ourselves today. We need to become self-sufficient again. We need to take responsibility, personally, for supplying our own energy & not exceed the extent that we can supply by the demands we make. The simplest, cheapest, best design I've seen put into practice uses the same principle Tesla discovered in his 1896 experiments in Colorado Springs. Tesla's work is being carried on today in a very practical sense, particularly by John Bedini who has published a book of free energy generation circuits & schematics that people can build for themselves. It's also available from any large Library should you choose to read it. You can also read up on the principle at http://cheniere.org/ You may join up with a free yahoo group. There are over 3000 members there who have already built & tested the John Bedini Monopole Mechanical Oscillator Energizer with Simplified Schoolgirl Circuit. This was named after the aforementioned ten year old school girl who built & tested this model successfully. These 3000+ people are from just about every country in the world & are standing by, ready to help you with free 24/7 support. You can also buy a kit of parts from places like http://r-charge.com