I measured my water boiler. 0,1kW for one cup of tea, five times a day. 182,5kW/year x 0,2725cents per kW= 51€ (60Dollar) a Year. I bought a thermos kettle for 25€ I want to boil down my power consumption to 1000kW a year. Its a goal i want to reach by june next year. New Solar Solution are always w...

Human behavior is the biggest waste in Energy. not any electric System. Its quite disturbing seeing people from the street into houses and realising how many people watch the same bull... Quite simple solution would be to setup a big Ass video projector in the middle of the Street and put them sucke...

This looks like a very interesting mod, I don't know enough about CF cards to comment on how stable they are but I would imagine they are similar to SD cards? With this in mind I wouldn't suggest stressing it too much, I've had many SD cards become corrupt due to over-stressing - they really aren't...

When using SD to IDE adapters you should look for a Solution with a Master/Slave Pin Layout.
U will find a lot of them without this function and may end up with errors.

bigkidoz wrote:This would be good if you were making a super slim xbox.

Its something in my mind. But first i will get more into the Coin OP thing. Set up a nice Gaming Machine were everything all up to PSone is running.

Ones software is ready, "resizing" is an option.

if you are going for speed then why not use a Class 10 SD card and an SD to IDE, much cheaper, much faster, much bigger. or just a dang SSD There were other preferences. i need a CF Card anyway. When its done on Xbox it will be placed somewhere else. it was in no way just a xbox thing.i never buy e...

most plug ins wont work anyway. there are changes in the source.
may have be rewritten in many cases.

Look at this one. Sharkoon System Fan M 70X70X15mm http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000EIV64C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 At first glance it looks odd. But it fits and is stable. SILENT There was a different Fan in before, that's why so much is cut. Not really necessary. http://s...

forget about locking anything.
its over. there is no more LIVE. it cant be messed up anymore.

What about savegame management ? Or ripping CD Track on HDD for custom Tracks in games ?

As a plugin i can recommend TuneIn .Offers almost all genre of music. I use it to listen allectro radio.
it works fine.

The first one is SCART RGB for SD. Best you can get AFTER the second one.
The second one is Component AV Cable for HD. the best for Xbox and YES it supports up to 1080i (480p,720p,1080i)
Get Component !

does the control system itself suck energy ?
i never plugged them in. because it was one step too much for me. im fine with pragmatic solutions.

HAHA See, ones you know the numbers, you start acting. Can be very surprising how much energy gets wasted over time. My router used to suck 8W. Since its Connected with my telephone (0.5W) i have to use it 24/7. Now here sum simple calculation. 24 hours x 8W x 365 days x 0.2725 €/kWh = 19,09€ (ca. 2...

I use a KD 302 from Profitec
used it to measure the energy i saved running xbox with CF cart. about 7 Watt/hour less now.

can we put this talk about general power consumption to an own thread ?

I on the other hand came to appreciate the same things as a child growing up in communist Romania, where mostly everyone in the cities were living in tall concrete blocks of apartments, with scheduled power cuts to keep the consumption down, hot water a couple of days a week and certain foods on ra...

my power-consumption is at 1200 kW a year. which will go down quit a bit till next year. i live in a single household. my usage of electronics is a bit higher than others. because most things a do myself. cooking for example. never go to restaurants. Frequency is the key for everything anyway. one e...

From a technichal standpoint this one also works: ARCTIC AFACO-080P0-GBA01 Cooling F8 PWM http://www.amazon.de/ARCTIC-AFACO-080P0-GBA01-Cooling-F8-PWM/dp/B002KTVFPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402907802&sr=8-1&keywords=arctic+80mm But its too thick layered. even if you cut down most of its s...

imagine all HDDs would be replaced by SSDs. more or less 90%of power-consumption for memory would be reduced.
i can image it would save a ton of energy in bureaucratic states like the one i live in = Germany and The USA for that matter.
just turning of bureaucracy is of course the best way to go.