[Publib] Re: Powering off computer gear at night

[Rachel Davis]

andrea at villagelibrary.org writes:
>If you are doing this as a "scientific" survey, you would have to add in
>the
>cost of cooling a room or building full of electronic equipment during the
>night as well. Those things put off a nice amount of heat. (a good thing
>in
>the winter). . .

So much heat, in fact, that we have to relocate one of the public iMacs
for most of the year because it messes with the sensor that tells the
heating system when to turn on.  

We would be freezing cold over here, and the facilities people would look
at the computer that runs the system and tell us it was 68 degrees in the
building.  We finally wised up and noticed that the sensor was on the wall
just above one of the computers.  Once we moved the computer, the heat
came on!

Rachel

Rachel Q. Davis
Children's Librarian
Thomas Memorial Library
6 Scott Dyer Road
Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
207-799-1720


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