I recently obtained a "Kill-a-watt" device that is used to measure various aspects of power consumption. I have been plugging it into various things just to see what kind of draw they had, I found the results kind of interesting so I thought I would share the relevant ones here :-)
A4000T w/CSPPC, 2xDVD-ROM, 1xSCSI HD, 1xIDE HD, Prometheus + Voodoo3, X-Surf:
113W Starstruck demo running
110W idle
112W 68K distributed.net
113W PPC distributed.net
115W 68K + PPC distributed.net
The above doesn't include the load of the old Sun 21" Trinitron monitor used to run the demo (ouch!).
A3000UX 25MHz + 16MB, A2065, 1xSCSI HD
71W powerup
67W idle
69W compiling
And for comparison, my workhorse server:
kos-mos "The Beast" 2xOpteron 242, 4GB, 13xIDE/SATA HD, 3xDVD-RW, Debian AMD64
290W "idle" (as idle as it gets)
340-350W dual LCDs powered on, active use
It seems like the Amigas are downright miserly in comparison :-) If my CD32 wasn't in such a basket case of wires in the living room I would see how much juice it was using, too. Since it has one of those external power bricks I guess it has some drain even when powered off.
