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    Phantom load?

    Just out of curiosity, what is the amount of power consumed by the vudu when turned on and when in standby?
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    Originally posted by FinalMacGyver View Post
    Just out of curiosity, what time of power consumption does the vudu use when turned on and when in stanby?
    What time of power consumption? That doesn't really make sense.

    How much power does it consume? Well, turning the Vudu "off" turns off only the video output. So that doesn't change the power consumption much.

    The power supply is rated at 12 Volts and 2 Amps which is 24 Watts maximum. You can be sure it's not running at or near the maximum rated current of the power supply - probably running 12 to 15 Watts at most. Not a lot of juice.

    Given the weather here, global warming ain't happening...It's going to be a high of -6 tomorrow. That's Fahrenheit and I don't live in Canada or Alaska but Chicago...

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      Re: Phantom load?

      Originally posted by NA9D View Post
      Given the weather here, global warming ain't happening...It's going to be a high of -6 tomorrow. That's Fahrenheit and I don't live in Canada or Alaska but Chicago...
      Bummer it was a cool 81 (Fahrenheit) in Sunny San Diego today with zero rain fade. You should consider getting out before Blago closes the borders.

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        Re: Phantom load?

        Originally posted by NA9D View Post
        Given the weather here, global warming ain't happening...It's going to be a high of -6 tomorrow. That's Fahrenheit and I don't live in Canada or Alaska but Chicago...
        It was 77 here in San Jose (record high by 6 degrees) and 74 in SF (which it rarely reaches in the SUMMER) yesterday... clearly one datapoint does not a theory make - but it sure will raise the average...

        And - come on! You wimp! Growing up in Chicago I would put -6 right in the sucky-winter-but-still-expected category... had to get to what, -10 before they'd give us a day off school? (eh, ok I say wimp but I think I no longer own a coat to survive that...)

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          Re: Phantom load?

          Just to keep the data points fair and balanced, we are looking at record lows here in South Florida (freeze warning for Saturday morning). On an interesting side note, it was reported that the overall global average temp. was down for the whole year in 2008, and so were sun spots/flares in the same time period. Surely this is totally unrelated of course, as we wouldn't want to let an outside variable that can't be controlled by taxes and legislators be the primary indicator of global temperature.

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            Re: Phantom load?

            Originally posted by FinalMacGyver View Post
            Just out of curiosity, what time of power consumption does the vudu use when turned on and when in stanby?
            When I checked this past weekend from one of my VUDUs, It showed around 9 watts while watching a movie and around 18 watts when booting up. I checked by connecting my laptop to the APC UPS that the VUDU was on and used the APC Powerchute monitoring software.

            I haven't checked yet on another VUDU on a different UPS to see if the results are the same.

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              Re: Phantom load?

              Originally posted by Nded View Post
              Surely this is totally unrelated of course, as we wouldn't want to let an outside variable that can't be controlled by taxes and legislators be the primary indicator of global temperature.
              Likewise we don't want to pick individual data points that go against a statistically significant trend and claim that they prove the trend doesn't exist.

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                Originally posted by redwein View Post
                Likewise we don't want to pick individual data points that go against a statistically significant trend and claim that they prove the trend doesn't exist.
                Actually, that's just what the Global Warming crowd has done. Truth is that the increase in temperatures seen a few years ago has been completely undone by the record cool temperatures seen the last couple years. More and more scientists are beginning to come forward and doubt the veracity of the "theory." Until meteorologists are able to tell me with certainty what the weather will be like next week or even tomorrow, I'm not going to put faith in their predictions for weather in 50 years!

                Anyhow, this thread is going off track. Let's get it back...

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                  Re: Phantom load?

                  Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                  Anyhow, this thread is going off track. Let's get it back...
                  Way to get the last word in. Nice. Ooops. I just did it too.

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                    Re: Phantom load?

                    Global warming is certainly a reality, but unfortunately the term is something of a simplification. Just because it's chilly outside, that doesn't mean we should start producing more CO2!

                    But the carbon footprint of a P2P client running in the background is relatively tiny. It's nothing compared to say, running a HDTV for a few minutes and wont offset the saving seen from cutting out the replication and distribution of millions of plastic discs.

                    If anything Vudu should be pushing the Green angle as much as possible...

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                      Re: Phantom load?

                      Originally posted by Citizen Erased View Post
                      But the carbon footprint of a P2P client running in the background is relatively tiny. It's nothing compared to say, running a HDTV for a few minutes ...
                      It's nothing compared to Bejiing China. It's a global issue not a VUDU one.

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                        Re: Phantom load?

                        Originally posted by Citizen Erased View Post
                        Global warming is certainly a reality, but unfortunately the term is something of a simplification. Just because it's chilly outside, that doesn't mean we should start producing more CO2!
                        Funny how a couple warm summers is evidence of global warming but record sea ice growth and record low global temperatures for 2 years running is not evidence of it not happening. That's why it's junk science. The prognosticators have an agenda (ie: Man is responsible for all ills on our planet) and they will do anything to make the data fit their agenda.

                        I never suggested producing more CO2. And the power plants around here are mostly nuclear which don't produce any CO2 anyhow.

                        The real carbon footprint I'm worried about is the one that will be created if the volcano under Yellowstone decides to erupt. Lots of people won't be able to use their Vudus then....

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                          Re: Phantom load?

                          Thes odds of that happening in our lifetime is extremely low.

                          I'd be more concerned about a big meteor hitting the earth in my lifetime before the Yellowstone Caldera erupts.

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                            Re: Phantom load?

                            Originally posted by aaronwt View Post
                            Thes odds of that happening in our lifetime is extremely low.

                            I'd be more concerned about a big meteor hitting the earth in my lifetime before the Yellowstone Caldera erupts.
                            You haven't been reading the news then have you? There's were some significant seismic events occurring in Yellowstone last month and many scientists were concerned that an eruption could happen any time....

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                              Re: Phantom load?

                              Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                              Funny how a couple warm summers is evidence of global warming but record sea ice growth and record low global temperatures for 2 years running is not evidence of it not happening.
                              Can you point out where you can find this info? I hadn't heard it.

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