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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!delphi.com!usenet From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Memory Checkers Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 09:35:58 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <BfJw3fG.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <326D34A9.6F29@nortel.ca> <54mnjl$b3e@Symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1d.delphi.com X-To: <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> writes: >For about $80 you can buy a cheap ammeter, these are very useful for this >kind of thing. They have this big "crab pincer" thing on the end of them that >you snap around a wire to measure how much current is flowing through it. >These are used all the time by electricians wiring houses and such. You take the >device and snap the crab thing around all the wires coming from your power >supply (while the computer is on and running of course) and this will give you a >total amperage measurement which can be used to calculate the wattage that >the computer is pulling through the power supply. Clamp on ammeters are only good for measuring AC. Guess what comes out of a working PC power supply: DC. By the way, if you're measuring AC, you've also got to limit yourself to a single conductor.