<font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">How about WiFi webcams with white LEDs pointing onto the meters? Then you can walk around the space with a smartphone even, unplugging devices and don't need the additional humans in the creepy basement.<br>
<br>How many new servers were installed lately, too? Remember, that data centers charge for rackspace based on power consumption.<br><br>I have to say that kitchen appliances and anything that is AC motorized will probably be the culprit. Sorry, fabric-hackers, maybe sewing machines.<br>
<br>Good luck.<br>Bruce<br><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Danny O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danny@spesh.com">danny@spesh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
We have mechanical meters, I think the smart meters are due in the next year or so.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Bruce Wolfe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brucewolfe.sf@gmail.com" target="_blank">brucewolfe.sf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Additionally, are these PG$E mechanical or Smart meters?</p><div>
<p>Bruce<br></p>
<p>Sent from Android. Pardon spelling.</p>
</div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 24, 2011 2:20 PM, "jim" <<a href="mailto:jim@well.com" target="_blank">jim@well.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> <br>> <br>
> Good idea. A variant is to unplug the suspect device <br>
> and plug it into something that measures Amps (e.g. a <br>> variac). What this will yield is a snapshot of amps. <br>> What's additionally needed is to know the amount of use <br>> during a billing period. <br>
> A gizmo such as Andy's suggestion (we have one buried <br>> behind the refridge next to the vending machine) can show <br>> power usage for a time period. (I saw it but didn't want <br>> to move all the stuff necessary so's to retrieve it--if <br>
> someone does retrieve it, maybe it'd be good to have a <br>> well-known storage place for it or the note someone would <br>> write to indicate it's current working location.) <br>> I suspect the cooking stuff as the primary sucker of <br>
> power and NB money: can cookers tell if there's been <br>> greater use of that stuff in the last three months over <br>> the previous quarter? <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 12:10 -0700, Bruce Wolfe wrote:<br>
>> Go analog and start unplugging things one at a time while someone is<br>>> watching the meter spin (or numbers flip) while on walkie-talkies, or<br>>> a human chain to relay the message up and down or maybe just plain old<br>
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