Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
John Gilmore wrote: I don't know why my power measurements are much higher than Richard's from February (he got 3.9W to 4.9W where I got 5.9W). I tend to trust his more, since mine are one-shot samples, but my dimmer measurements do tend to corroborate each other (i.e. none of them got

Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
Gary C Martin wrote: I just have a B4 here to test but I was curious to try some power measurement to see how they differed. I seem to have a slightly worrying status that's not listed on the wiki page. Kernel bug. Fixed in current joyride. Also the status values changed and the overall

Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
Richard A. Smith wrote: My measurements were taken with the CPU off across long periods so that activity was minimal. (I spent an entire Sunday taking them as I did other chores). With the CPU off the fluctuation of the power draw is greatly reduced. This could be the reason. I will

Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-14 Thread James Cameron
Measurements with a mass production unit SKU1 serial number CSN75000153 and Joyride 2436, using a digital multimeter in current mode, with another digital multimeter in voltage mode showing the voltage after the current meter, presented to the XO. In Control Panel, Automatic power management is

XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-12 Thread John Gilmore
I spent a few hours tonight testing the power consumption of a G1G1 XO under 8.2-759. I didn't test any of the tricky autosuspend/resume stuff -- just how much power can be saved by various user actions. Both the answers, and how you can do measurements like this on your own XO (using the

Re: XO power consumption under 8.2-759

2008-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2008, at 10:57, John Gilmore wrote: I spent a few hours tonight testing the power consumption of a G1G1 XO under 8.2-759. I didn't test any of the tricky autosuspend/resume stuff -- just how much power can be saved by various user actions. Both the answers, and how you can do