Re: I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

On 2015-10-21 20:45:47 -0400, Greg Troxel 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.

Have you tried this? It doesn't seem plausible. I would expect the power
consumption to remain roughly constant independent of input voltage (so
at 6V it would draw about 1A). A constant current would mean that the
regulator just burns any excess voltage.

        hp

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