Re: gEDA-user: pcb, howto partition power planes?

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Another nice tool: Maybe you could borrow a FLIR camera. That would
> show every ever so slight hot spot in a room, like something that
> consumes a couple of watts of standby power but has long since been
> forgotten.

That won't help me figure out how often the well pump runs.  It's 480
feet down, on the far side of the yard.  And even though I CAN get to
the septic pump, I'm not going to ;-)

We're talking megawatt-hours, not tiny dribbles.  Our house uses about
23 MWh each year.  I expect this project to pay for itself FAST.

> description: font position out of range

Oops, I have a new version of pcb that supports accented characters.
Fixed.

> WRT to energy savings, if you find some gizmo that consumes next to
> nothing but has to run and its transformer gobbles up 95%+ you could
> try to replace i.e. a 115V-12V transformer with a 230V-24V. "Modern"
> transformers are often operated a hair below or right at the onset
> of saturation.

Interesting.  At the moment, though, I don't have any idea where the
power is going.  I suspect my computers are eating a big chunk, but
there are a LOT of other things in the house that are suspect.


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