John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Rune Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I know this is a little off topic, but... =)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an idea as to how much power a PVR-150 or an PVR-500
>>>> draws from the PCI bus?
>>>>
>>>> I have a pet project with tight power requirements.
>>>>
>>> Less than 10W. I can test this today if you want a more accurate number.
>>>
>> PVR500 = 8W at idle ( measured at the wall using kill a watt meter) is
>> added to my Q9550 system (1 kworld 115 + 3 sata hard drives + nvidia
>> gforce 7200 + 6GB memory with cpu at idle) with the card added versus
>> not in the system. I can try recording something and get new numbers
>> if you want. Before pvr500, 110W  after 118W.
>>
>> https://www.chooserenewables.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16154&cat=266&page=1
>>
> 
> 10W total with the ivtv driver loaded. No difference if the device is
> recording or not. I tried 2 channels.
> cat /dev/video1 > test1
> cat /dev/video2 > test2
> 
> This # would include any added cpu and disk load as well. Obviously
> there was not much..
> 
> John
> 

Thank you for the numbers and sorry for not replying sooner.

The power constraint is measured at the psu. so a rough estimate for an 
PVR-500 would be:

When powering up:        7W
After driver has loaded: 8W


It's is a bit tight considering I only have 20 Watts to play with, but 
it will be fun to try.


Again thank you for your help.

Rune Petersen

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