HI, > On 22 Oct 2015, at 01:45, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > I have a net5501 (with 40G PATA spinning disk) that I run on 12V, from > several AGM batteries and a float supply. I find that it draws 0.5A at > 12-13V, which is about 6W. However, if I fed it 6V instead, it would > draw the same 0.5A and be about 3W.
Nope. The switching regulator isn’t very lossy so it would draw about 1A at 6V. Try it. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
