CCNA LAB taking up a lot of electricity?

routingbyrumor

Hi! I currenty have a stack of of 7 2500 series routers including a 2511 access server to reach all of them. I also have a 2950 12 port switch, 2924 24 port switch, and a 1924 switch. My question is if I power all these babies up at once and perform labs will my electric bill take a huge toll. This question is for those who run labs at home do you have high electric bills?

EdTheLad

Do the maths! each router or switch uses about 50Watts an hour, a decent light bulb uses 100 Watts, so you have 10 devices 500 Watts per hr, 1 kilowatt hrs costs? depends where you live, lets say 15cents an hour, your lab costs you about 8 cents an hour to run.
The cost will be high if you run 24 7, apart from that i wouldnt worry,my shower uses 2500 watts an hour and sometimes i leave it on all night, do i worry nah!

lordy

From my experience the 2501 and 2503 take even less (around 25 Watts).

If you have a huge plasma TV it's probably more expensive to watch TV then to work with the Lab

routingbyrumor

Thanks for the replys I'll be running them for a couple of hours here and there.