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

Bob Bishop <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Interesting; I will have to try that.  IIRC (long ago, so unreliable)
From reading the schematic it was a 7805, which is not switching, and I
don't remember seeing anything big enough to be a buck downconverter,
but I could well be wrong.

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