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I want to get my PC off the grids power; any decent solutions for an apartment that has access to a roof? (lemdit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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As title says. I think my PC is using like a max of 500w when it's juicing but idles for less. I was thinking of using an ecoflow high grade setup for this. Anyone have experience doing something similar?

I might switch to a small micro tower setup by Dell or Lenovo that uses like 120w max. The new Mac minis seem to cap out at 39w though which is crazy.

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[–] greengnu@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well the first question is what software you NEED to run, then we can figure out hardware.

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ended up figuring out im averaging about 120w on my desktop which isn't bad at all.

A web browser, a code editor and some docker containers or binaries. Nothing incredibly strenuous. Like I'm not gaming.

[–] greengnu@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

So effectively light enough that it could run on a raspberry PI 4. Well that would put you under 10W