Measuring power

[Michael Lush]

A frend of mine has a Power Owl

http://www.greenstamp.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/33/products_id/68?gclid=COmqvdzclZoCFR4hnAodx3XzNw

You clip the sensor round the mains power were it comes in to the 
electricity meter.  I guess you could clip it round the server power cable

I'd be inclined to calibrate it against a inline power meter before use...

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Michael
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Andrew Beattie wrote:
>This is a long way off topic but I'm hoping that someone here might be able 
> to share a clue...
>
> I need to measure the power used on dozens and dozens of servers.
>
> I need a breakdown by server, not a total for the room.
>
> (more specifically, I want to calculate the power cost per server per year).
>
> Added difficulty:  I want to do this non-intrusively.
>
> I can't go round, yanking out cables and inserting in-line meters.
>
> So, I got a clamp meter.  But contrary to my expectation, that only works if 
> I can separate the individual wires in the power cable - not an option.
>
> So, I'm stuck.  Is there any non-intrusive way to measure the power 
> consumption of my servers?
>
> Andrew
>