power consumption


For those of us deprived of good cheap pwer in california, how does one calculate the energy usage / unit time of our audio equipment?

Can you figure it out fomr the specs alone and if so, how?

thanks

jd
jdwek

Showing 1 response by glen

Pull the outlet out of the wall. With all your stuff on standby clamp a amp meter around the hot. This will give you your load in amperes. amps x volts = watts or amps x 120(volts)= consumed power. Richards post will do the rest. Then turn it all on crank it up and see what you've got. I'll guess twice as much power consumed. You know I own an amp meter maybe I should run a test and report the findings.