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[Derek Broughton]

Mark Greenwood wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:15:24 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mark Greenwood wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm running this on a Asus eee box. very cheap. very low power (about
>> > 8W or less when it's idling).
>> 
>> Cool.  I'm always interested in low-power devices, since I live off-grid.
> 
> I should mention that's 8W with the wireless disabled. It pulls a little
> more when wireless is on.

Sure - but that's really quite good.  
> 
>> 
>> > Now, it has an internal laptop hard drive, but
>> > I have a 1TB USB drive connected,
>> 
>> what does _that_ draw?
> 
> Good question! The power supply for it is rated at 18W. Again I use
> laptop_mode to spin it down when it's not in use so it doesn't draw that
> continually. 

And, in fact should be drawing well under the rating.  I'm not sure what the
requirement is, but I don't think you would get your Underwriter's Lab
certification using a power supply that provided only 100% of actual
requirement.

-- 
derek