How much power does each extender consume?

[mohanman]

Thanks

[DualQuad]

I am using a Watts-up, and never calibrated it for accuracy. At these levels though even a 20% margin of error is pretty insignificant.

During boot the HD extender seemed to consume about 6.5 watts.

The HD extender is consuming about 7.5 watts during playback of 1080i H.264 content over Component and downmixing the the dolby digital signal to stereo. This was about the worse case I could think of.


And here I thought I was the only one who was curious about these things.

DQ

[mohanman]

Wow, that is like nothing?

[Menehune]

That's about the equivalent of an incandescent night light or a single C7 christmas bulb or about 12% of a 60w lightbulb. About 180W power consumption per day (24 hour playback)

[DFranch]

Can the extender wake the server from standby? I ask this because I would like to sleep my server when nothing is recording. I can't do it now because FSE causes problems when the server starts back up. If I could use the extender to wake the server then I could sleep the server all day and it would only be on when I am watching or recording something.

[bastafidli]

+1 I would love this feature as well. I don't even do any recording, my server is just a simple file server. I would love to put it to sleep until I want to watch something on the extender.

[Menehune]

You can check this thread. The MVP apparently will wake the PC (XP) if you enable the ethernet port to "let this device wake the PC", unknown about the HD extender.

I don't use an extender on my PC nor do I sleep my server.

[DFranch]

I would definately get the HD extender if this is confirmed. It would get the noisy server out of my living room & save electricity.

[DigitalMan]

I used a Kill-A-Watt on mine, it varied 6 to 7 watts.

Honestly, it's much better than I expected. I don't yet have any h.264 video to try on it but will convert some sooner or later. (edit) I have mine hooked up HDMI

[pez]

Has anyone measured the difference between Standby and On-but-idle?

Thanks,
pez

[Serra]

Originally Posted by pez

Has anyone measured the difference between Standby and On-but-idle?

At 6 watts, does it matter!

[blade]

Originally Posted by pez

Has anyone measured the difference between Standby and On-but-idle?

Thanks,
pez

Mine uses 6 watts. Doesn't matter if it's playing back videos or in standby.

[pez]

Thanks, i guess i can stop putting it in standby when its not being used.
-pez