bpa;496661 Wrote: > Radio has an on/off button which can do true power off - Touch could > have had one - perhaps there were design/cost issues.
It doesn't do true power off, but it does come close. When "really off" but still plugged in, my pre-production Radio (without a battery) uses about one third of a watt. That is, my power meter which measures to the 1/100 amp fluctuates between 0.00 and 0.01 amps at 120V. Call it 0.005 A (sorry I'm too lazy to hook up my normal multimeter that would give me more precise current measurements), and that's 0.6 VA. My meter says the power factor is just shy of 60, so that's about 0.36 watts (my meter reports true watts RMS but doesn't report fractions of watts). To hit 0 watts you need to unplug the power supply. If a bunch of folks want true physical power switches, well, build 'em. All you need is a couple right-sized barrel plugs (an M and a F), an inline switch, a 2-conductor wire, and some solder. Probably a couple bucks from Mouser. Beta testers remember that our pre-production units use different sized connectors than the final retail units (the pre-prodution gear uses the same size connector as the SB3, which is dangerous since the Radio power supply puts out higher voltage; Logitech, as you might expect, was thoughtful enough to change the connectors on the retail gear to avoid that problem). Philip, re: "a simple on/off rocker... Everything else in the world has one.", my TVs, DVD players, laptop, even the dishwasher have software-driven power buttons. A couple of my CD players and my new AV receiver have true power buttons (though the AV receiver has a more prominent On/Standby button), but most of the gear I've bought in the last year save for the sub-$20 kitchen appliances have had soft power switches and don't truly switch off when plugged in. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72685 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
