If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running
I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!
I have a rack setup and most of the time it consumes around 200 watts during the daytime and 100 watts at night, but can spike upto 600 watts if I put a heavy CPU+GPU load on it.
I also put my desktop into suspend at night, something which I think a lot more people with desktops could do. Don't run 24/7 services (e.g. Home Assistant) on your massive desktop with an i7/i9 and a GPU. Run that stuff on a NUC or Pi4 or anything that has low power consumption. Then turn your desktop on only when you're actually using it.
I'm curious as to what others are doing to save costs if anything. I love the hobby but we're in a recession, lol!
In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!
But at last, I'm a renter and my property management isn't going to allow that.
We're literally wasting clean energy because of a bunch of rich turds hogging real estate with shitty rules about what you can't do. When my property changed management the new management even banned EV charging on the property and locked up all the outlets in the parking lot. These kind of management are not welcome in Silicon Valley but somehow they are here.
I'd almost be willing to bet money that your landlord would charge a "renewable energy" fee even if they're just dumping power back to the grid for $$$ even if they had the panels
My personal approach is separate archived storage from working storage and keep archive storage offline until I need it. Keeping hard drives spinning is costly.
That’s what the generator is for.