Air conditioning in April - good grief

[Jerry.]

Yes you are.

[Rick Dipper]

Last year I got a sun burn in laste march from DIY, so this year its late .........

[IMM]

A single fan and some ducting would do, instead of all these fatties adding to global warming.

[IMM]

Get LCD monitors and don't have the stuff on 24/7.

[John Rumm]

I was agreeing with you - so stop arguing...

It's only a problem for 25% of the year - as you say rarely.

[John Rumm]

I find that just the computers on their own are enough to raise the temperature in my office to about 5 deg over the temperature of the rest of the house....

I can cope with it upto about 27 deg if it is not too humid - but once it goes above that (or it gets wetter) it is no longer conducive to work.

So I expect I will need to turn the AC on in the next few weeks. In fact I am giving serious consideration to adding some built in AC as a part of the loft conversion I am doing!

[Bob Eager]

OK in (crackpot) theory...but not in practice.

At least two machines are servers - DNS primary in one case.

LCD monitors don't work unless you are prepared to use the resolution they support - with my eyesight that isn't practical either.

[Grunff]

You are an imbecile.

[IMM]

Do you mean you want to have heat producing monitors and stuff on all the time? How dumb!

[Andy Hall]

If a server is handling incoming mail services and DNS (for example) it needs to be on the whole time.

.andy

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[Grunff]

No; you are so clueless, I really don't know why I'm bothering. The monitors switch themselves off when not in use. When in use, even my 19" CRT is only ~80W. Compared with the overall consumption of 3 permanently on PCs, it's nothing.

[Lurch]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:24:24 +0100, in uk.d-i-y John Rumm strung together this:

He can't help it, he's a compulsive moron.

[IMM]

What weight are you? Tell the truth now.

[IMM]

Some PCs use less power than others. Did you check before you foolishly bought?

[Grunff]

I don't buy, I build. This spec can't be bought.

[IMM]

Did you check the power consumption of the parts? No you never.

[Lurch]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:16:37 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "IMM" strung together this:

6'5" and 11.5 stones.

[Pete C]

True, though having some air movement makes you feel cooler. If the temperature in April outdoors is comfortable, then it should be possible to achieve something similar indoors with the right ventilation.

PCs are pretty crap when it comes to power management, give them another 5-10 years and they should be half decent. I've got 3 PCs here but luckily only one is a desktop, the other 2 are laptops mostly used as extra monitors.

cheers, Pete.

[John Rumm]

compared to your hot air output that is nothing...

[IMM]

A beanpole? Uh!