Work equipment power use?

[BUDFORCE]

There is actually a reason for asking, but also interested anyway.

Wife and I both work from home, our work equipment consists of 2 laptops, attached keyboard and mouse. 4 screens in total. Internet router, and fibre modem, and 8 port network switch. We charge mobile phones also as we both have work phones.

Yes we use the kettle etc, but if we had to work in essential only, I can't think of anything else aside from the above.

Any idea, ballpark energy use on that?

Was thinking about this winter and potential power cuts and wondering if I could power it all from a 700w generator. I'm guessing it would be ok.

But was just generally interested anyway.

 

[moogle]

2 computers and general home appliances (fridge/freezer) running here and never goes above 500-600w. Currently at 277w but that's just my PC on. 700w seems fine, but it depends on the monitor sizes and what brightness, the laptops won't suck more than the chargers can take so unless it's a super beefy laptop it'd be 60-90w max?

 

[bloodiedathame]

Get yourself a couple of plugs that have energy use monitoring. Typically my home office uses about 5kW a day. That's PC, audio system, two monitors, laptop and a server.

 

[BUDFORCE]

2 computers and general home appliances (fridge/freezer) running here and never goes above 500-600w. Currently at 277w but that's just my PC on. 700w seems fine, but it depends on the monitor sizes and what brightness, the laptops won't suck more than the chargers can take so unless it's a super beefy laptop it'd be 60-90w max?

Yea I mean even things like fridges etc don't need to be included.

 

[moogle]

Yea I mean even things like fridges etc don't need to be included.

Yeah, I meant it as in the use with it is around 500w on average per hour (so 0.5kWh every hour), so if you have a 700w generator the work equipment would use way less.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Yeah, I meant it as in the use with it is around 500w on average per hour (so 0.5kWh every hour), so if you have a 700w generator the work equipment would use way less.

Sorry yea I got what you meant

So yes minus fridges, freezers and other standby items should be pretty comfortable on 700w, kinda what I figured also.