08.10.05
More UPS
I’m getting boring talking about this all the time, but the power line seems to have settled. Must have been something weird yesterday, or just the UPS having startup jitters. Now that I’m back to using apcupsd on the Linux box, things have started looking up and with some help from the TrinityOS project and some rapid learning of how gnuplot works, I now have a pretty graph that updates itself every 10 minutes! Today’s sample below:
You can see the 75W jump I was talking about when playing games. What was particularly interesting was the fact I started with a non-3d game at about 8pm and then moved to a 3d game at 9pm – you can notice the extra power used by the vid card on the 2nd game.