graphing power consumtion meter

TrojanWhore

TrojanWhore

TrojanWhore

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Hi everyone,

I've been given the task at work of helping to test some energy management software that we might implement.

we've got a test bench set up with 2 identical machines, and will be running identical workloads on them, but currently we have no way to measure the power usage.

I know you can get power meters that sit between the plug and the socket, but was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some that could possibly log the data in a way that we could output/generate a graph from it, as this would be much more useful to us than just cumulative figures

Thanks,
Trojan
 
I'm not sure that anything exists to this effectively. That is to say, software that accurately monitors power consumption of a PC. I've looked for this myself online and found nothing.

What you could do though, is use a power meter and log the results on an Excel spread-sheet. You could then produce a graph from this spread-sheet.
 
yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to do, but I cannot find a plug meter which saves the data log.

we've been passed some software which claims to measure and reduce power consumption, and need to test the validity of those claims.

if nothing is available that can do this, then I guess we'll have to do it the manual, pen and paper (and excel) way. we all have other work to get on with so I was hoping there was a less involved way to do it!

Thanks for the response :)
 
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