I did manage to check with a professional power meter, and the problem was exactly what many of you fathomed, as in, there is no problem besides my power meter calling Watts what are actually just volt-ampere. Thank you very much to all of you.
Ok, i may have arranged to make some measurements in a lab in a few days, but i fully expect that you are right, and that that power actually is not consumed. I will keep you posted.
The usb port always on, and i have a bunch of peripherals connected, i expected those to draw some power
So neither the power supply nor the energy logger are faulty, it is just that the latter is not good enough to distinguish between a power draw and a capacitor constantly charging and...
Hi all,
given that i want to set-up my computer for wake-on-lan, i wanted to check how much power it draws when it is shut down. So i bought this energy logger:
Avidsen 103755
Both my power supply (cooler master Silent Pro M2 850W) and my motherboard (asrock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3) are ErP/EuP...
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