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shardian:
Assuming a 200watt arcade power supply, running 24 hours a day:

200W = 0.2kW
0.2kW * 24 hours = 4.8kW-h

your machine will consume 4.8 kilowatt hours each day. Multiply that by the amount you pay per kilowatt-hour to figure running cost. You can figure kW-h cost by using a previous power bill.
In my area, I pay about 10.5 cents per kW-h

Assuming 10.5 cents:
4.8*$0.105 = $0.504

It would cost me about 50 cents a day for a 200 watt power supply arcade game. Substitute your own rate to determine your cost.

johnm160:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 02, 2006, 01:26:22 pm ---Assuming a 200watt arcade power supply, running 24 hours a day:

200W = 0.2kW
0.2kW * 24 hours = 4.8kW-h

your machine will consume 4.8 kilowatt hours each day. Multiply that by the amount you pay per kilowatt-hour to figure running cost. You can figure kW-h cost by using a previous power bill.
In my area, I pay about 10.5 cents per kW-h

Assuming 10.5 cents:
4.8*$0.105 = $0.504

It would cost me about 50 cents a day for a 200 watt power supply arcade game. Substitute your own rate to determine your cost.

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About how much more does the monitor use?

shardian:
An actual arcade monitor runs everything off the same power supply. You never specified if you are running a mame cab or an original cabinet. I assumed an actual arcade cabinet, since you wanted to run it 24 hours a day. I would not recommend running a mame cab 24 hours a day. I can't think of any reason someone would want to do that...unless they would be putting it in a commercial location, which I would hope to assume you are not doing.  ;)

Either way, you would just add up the power consumption of the computer power supply (probably 400 watts), the monitor power (which could be a little trickier since it is straight AC), and the marquee light. It will end up being probably around 500-600 watts.

johnm160:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 02, 2006, 03:12:15 pm ---An actual arcade monitor runs everything off the same power supply. You never specified if you are running a mame cab or an original cabinet. I assumed an actual arcade cabinet, since you wanted to run it 24 hours a day. I would not recommend running a mame cab 24 hours a day. I can't think of any reason someone would want to do that...unless they would be putting it in a commercial location, which I would hope to assume you are not doing.  ;)

Either way, you would just add up the power consumption of the computer power supply (probably 400 watts), the monitor power (which could be a little trickier since it is straight AC), and the marquee light. It will end up being probably around 500-600 watts.

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You are correct, I was thinking of a PC power supply plus a monitor. I did not realize the everything ran off the the power supply in an original cab.

ahofle:
Does a 400 watt PC power supply really consume 400 watts at all times?  I thought that was just the maximum if you happened to have a tons of devices in it.

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