8 watts is a lot, you should easily be able to find that with your finger. It'll be hot.
On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 11:10:00 AM UTC-5, gregebert wrote: > > Have any of you MOD_6 owners measured the power consumption of the entire > clock ? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > When I have 6 tubes running on my setup, it's around 25 watts (fluctuates > based on what's displayed). > With all segments on, for all 8 tubes, it's 45W. At idle (all tubes dark), > it's 4W. > > I'm a bit disappointed at my overall inefficiency; after doing some > calculations there's about 8W that is getting wasted somewhere (as heat, of > course) in the power supply and I have yet to track it down. > (45W measured - 33W 'known' for nixies/drivers - 4W idle = 8W unaccounted > for). > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1a62548c-3014-4697-8cc7-d4729f0b5988%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
