Re: Power consumption of Apple II with Monitor?

[rich12345 <aiiadict@gmail.com>]

On Apr 13, 6:20 pm, Charlie <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
> Sure.  Without the monitor:
>
> 34 watts on power-up
> 29 watts after a second or two while the drive boots
> 24 watts with no drive running
>

but Michael J. Mahon wrote earlier:

>When I constructed my AppleCrate II, I measured the average power
>consumption of an Apple //e main board (no cards) at about 4.2 Watts.

you're measuring 20 more watts that Michaels setup with no cards.

24 - 7 (for system saver)

17 watts...  You mention that you have duodisk and serial card.  Do
these two cards take this much power?