The specs for the power board are that it turns the slaves off when
the power through the master drops below 30W; no problem when I want
to do a shutdown but for Sleep the power goes too low and the slaves
go off too.
I am cogitating further on this one
Severin Crisp
On 16/04/2011, at 5:33 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Severin,
I do not want everything to power down, just to put the G5 to sleep.
Aaah – then my previous ramblings are addressing the wrong problem ;o)
My first thought would be – does your display have a front (or
otherwise easily accessible) power button. If so have both computer
and display plugged into the master and then, on an evening shutdown
the computer, then the display. Similarly, on a morning, power up
both the computer and display.
Yes, it’s been a lovely day here in Albany – Georgie & I went for a
walk along the beach before a late and leisurely lunch/coffee/cake
at Emu Point :o))
Cheers
Neil
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on 16/4/11 5:11 PM, Severin Crisp at [email protected] wrote:
I don't Ronni but that is not the problem. I do not want
everything to power down, just to put the G5 to sleep. The Sleep
current on the G5 is too low! I am thinking of a twoway into the
Master socket with the G5 and something else to give a current
boost when the G5 sleeps. Of course the downside of that will be
that at night after Shutdown, that device will still be on. You
just can not always win!
Regards
Severin
I see that we were hotter than you down here today, 32C at the
airport and 27.2 at 15 Thomas St on Mount Clarence. A very
lethargic cat has jut managed to stagger in for her evening meal
while bandicoots are happily foraging in the garden.. Our resident
possum has just denuded a big maple for the second time this
summer, poor tree.
On 16/04/2011, at 4:47 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 16/04/2011, at 4:34 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Trying to be energy miserly I bought a Jackson Green Energy
Saving Powerboard (http://www.ji.com.au/products/PT9778/).
It works fine with my G5 plugged in to the Master socket and
everything else, display, printers, router, modem, Airport,
scanner, Firewire drives and so on in Slave sockets. When I shut
down at night the G5 goes through Shutdown then everything
switches off. In the morning at 8.40am when the G5 restarts
everything comes back on.
There is an unfortunate snag. During the day when I am away from
the desk I put the G5 to sleep. When I try this it goes to sleep
then almost instantly reawakes. I believe that the sleep current
drawn is so small that the board obediently powers down the
slaves and in their dying gasps the modem and the like send out
signals and the G5 responds by waking up.
Has anyone else used one of these gadgets or have any bright
ideas for a workaround?
Hi Severin,
Just a thought, In System Preferences > Energy Saver. Do you have
the G5 set to “Wake for Network Access’.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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