bushbadee said:
You made quite a few assumptions that were not true.
Ummm, actually no, you did.
17 inch panel monitors sell at Costco for as low as 350 dollars and I have
seen the cheaper at Tigerdirect.
That would make them about CDN$500, the same number I used for my
calculation
A 19 inch monitor is closer to 200 or more watts.
They are generally rated at about 250 watts
My 19" Dell is 180W, I just checked 10 seconds ago.
I do not live in the tennesee valley and do not pay 9.2 cents per killowhat
hour.
I pay about 26.2 cents per kilowatt hour plus tax.
I do not live in the Tennesse Valley either, I live in Toronto. I pay CDN
$0.092 per kWh.
My 17 inch panel monitor has a 40 watt supply and it runs cool so I assume
the monitor is using a lot less than 40 watts unless the screen is a bright
white and I do not run it at full brightness.
I would assume it uses closer to 10 watts with a blue , but not full
brightness desk top.( Just one color on verses all three)
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. But there are LCD monitors which draw 0.75A
@ 100v-120v,
see
http://www.necmitsubishi.com/products/home/nec_index.cfm
Now the final insult.
When you want to get rid of your tube monitor, better not just dump it in
the garbage.
I won't, I'll dump it on the front lawn.
You might find a citation on your door if you do.
Not likely.
What you do with it, and you can not donate it as no one seems to want them,
is drive (at least for me) about 90 miles to a hazardous waste site and pay
them to take it off your hands.
No, I pick up the phone and tell the city I'd like a bulk pick-up, which was
free the last time I used it.
Of course you can do what ssome city inspector told me to do with it.
Leave it in an alley and some one will surely steal it.
Maybe someone will pick it up from my front lawn?
But I tried that with an obsolete portable computer and I got all sorts of
calls telling me I had forgotten it some wheres, please come and pick it up.
Why did you put your phone number on your garbage?
No flat pannels are a lot cheaper now and I guess that is why they now
outsell tube monitors.
Well, they are kinda cool.
Take a course in accounting and
Put those figures in your calculator.
I don't see how that would help, but before I finish this email, I'll have
done both. Anything else I should do to help you look smarter?
YOu remind me of my son when I used to tell him it cost 50 cents a mile to
drive a car he used to laugh at me.
Now he is an accountant he tells that I am not figuring in all the expenses
and it costs even more.
So you lied to your son? Or was it just that you didn't know what you were
talking about?
I just bought a new set of premioum 85000 mile tires for $400.
I will be lucky to get 10,000 miles out of them so that by next winter at
the start of the season I will buy a new set and have fresh treads for the
winter.
I don't know how you treat your car, or what kind of tires you buy. But
something obviously isn't right, you've done this for how many seasons? I
get many years out of my performance (not exactly known to be long lasting)
tires, probably 60-70,000 kms. I'm a 23yr old single male, I drive an Audi
A4, and yeah, I do take it to the limits.
Thats 4 cents a mile just for tires.
You're paying too much IMO.
I get great milage driving down the mountain.
But pretty lousy driving up the mountain.
So it all averages out?
BTW, since you never corrected my initial calculations, I'll assume they're
correct. Oh and before I forget, now that I've completed my accounting
course, and plugged in your values, I can tell you it's going to take you
about 5.55 years to recoup the additional cost of your LCD monitor.
Romy
