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

Hi Bob,

That's what I observed as well with my bench power supply - as I dropped 
the voltage, the current would increase and wattage would remain 
relatively constant.

I don't recall the exact point at which  the board will sort of konk-out 
.. but I seem to recall the threshold is much above 6V. Also I noted 
that once the board was 'up' I was able to lower the voltage below the 
threshold that permitted it to boot - I think that this is probably 
pretty normal behaviour from the board's standpoint.  But when setting a 
low-water voltage point it's probably best to be certain that that level 
permits booting.

--Andrew

On 2015-10-22 5:49 AM, Bob Bishop wrote:
> HI,
>
>> On 22 Oct 2015, at 01:45, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> 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.
>
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