I'd imagine a lot of people are already perfectly aware of this, but the other day I bought a power meter to check consumption on various things, and when I put it on the Joggler I was amazed at how low it actually was. I read 5W with the screen off and 8w with it on.
For someone like me who frets about leaving things turned on, this has made me feel much better about running various jogglers around the house! Has anyone made their own readings?
Joggler Power Consumption
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Horatio,
Its good to bring this to attention again .
My wife had took to switching the kitchen Joggler off all the time to save electricity but I prefer it on .
So I showed her an older thread on here with the power consumption , I used the simple light bulb to explain how little the joggler uses in comparison .
She is no longer bothered
It's amazing to think tho what the joggler could be doing while just sitting there switched on .
Now the Rasberry Pi , that's on another level all together .....
Its good to bring this to attention again .
My wife had took to switching the kitchen Joggler off all the time to save electricity but I prefer it on .
So I showed her an older thread on here with the power consumption , I used the simple light bulb to explain how little the joggler uses in comparison .
She is no longer bothered
It's amazing to think tho what the joggler could be doing while just sitting there switched on .
Now the Rasberry Pi , that's on another level all together .....
Happy Joggling
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Ah, I had a quick search for a power consumption thread but couldn't find one, I'll have a more thorough dig.
Yeh it's phenomenal to me that something as (usefully) powerful as the joggler can be so efficient, while my NAS which was made 5 years later is so relatively power hungry.
The only one I've been leaving on handles simple home automation stuff and SP. RPi is cool, was waiting for a ubuntu tablet that you could load all sorts onto and be also very low on juice.
Yeh it's phenomenal to me that something as (usefully) powerful as the joggler can be so efficient, while my NAS which was made 5 years later is so relatively power hungry.
The only one I've been leaving on handles simple home automation stuff and SP. RPi is cool, was waiting for a ubuntu tablet that you could load all sorts onto and be also very low on juice.
Re: Joggler Power Consumption
Lots of interesting stuff on Joggler power stuff on this thread
http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489
http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489
Happy Joggling
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Here I have been using a few the Jogglers (up to 20) as automation consoles. That said they are on 24/7 and managed by the mothership.
These are POE connected using TP-Link POE splitters providing the 5VDC necessary for the Joggler.
I am using a managed POE mid stream injector from a company named Tycon.
The automation mothership shuts off the screens at night.
Relating to a low powered NAS here built an 8 drive box using an Asus AMD Hudson chipset E-350 with 8 Gb of RAM, LSI SATA 3 Raid card a while back.
It is sort of low energy. This is the NAS case I used.
These are POE connected using TP-Link POE splitters providing the 5VDC necessary for the Joggler.
I am using a managed POE mid stream injector from a company named Tycon.
The automation mothership shuts off the screens at night.
Relating to a low powered NAS here built an 8 drive box using an Asus AMD Hudson chipset E-350 with 8 Gb of RAM, LSI SATA 3 Raid card a while back.
It is sort of low energy. This is the NAS case I used.
- Pete
O2 Jogglers running EFI Ubuntu / Squeezeplayer
OpenPeak Voip Telephony / Zigbee tabletops hardware modded with Seabios / RTC / Ethernet ROM edits / SSD drives running XPe for automation screens
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O2 Jogglers running EFI Ubuntu / Squeezeplayer
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Wow, hadn't even considered PoE.
My NAS needs are pretty sporadic, I've had a few of the leading brands offerings the last few years but have always found them frustratingly limited, and they don't seem to compete much on power consumption -I really want something that WOLs and sleeps reliably. Building your own is the way forward I think!
My NAS needs are pretty sporadic, I've had a few of the leading brands offerings the last few years but have always found them frustratingly limited, and they don't seem to compete much on power consumption -I really want something that WOLs and sleeps reliably. Building your own is the way forward I think!
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A way to lower power usage is to have the brightness as low as can be. If your not running X - say just have ubuntu base - then the backlight on the screen stays on. For some reason - I have not found out why - X is able to turn off the Joggler screen back leds. Of the components in the joggler the screen consumes the most power, I believe. I've been planning to write some tools for the joggler, one of which allows the brightness to be adjusted by the command line, in an easy way. It's easy enough to do it without this, you can write a script or you could just echo the values to the right place - sorry don't know the correct linux name for where the brightness values are held.
An experiment, I have in mind is to run 2 jogglers off one power supply - because I have more jogglers than power supplies, plus the Jogglers original power supply can provide far more current then a single joggler would ever typically draw. I need to know what current my jogglers are currently drawing, before I do this, as I've no death wish for my jogglers or power supplies. Also I think that a lot of power supplies may be good enough for the joggler, so long as they provide a reasonable 5 Volts and can supply up to 2 Amps, and are comfortable typically providing around an Amp, without running too hot.
I'm thinking of cutting the Joggler's power supply cable and putting a 2 pole jack socket on there and then making an adaptor with one jack plug and 2 sockets. And then have a jack plug and joggler power supply plug. These can then be of the right length. Plus I can easily break into the power supply for each or both jogglers to measure current drawn. I would also have points to measure voltage, without the need to break the supply. This is useful, so I can see how well the power supply under test is managing. Who knows it may even be possible to run 3 jogglers of a single power supply. But the current drawn would have to be the lowest, as the supply would be providing around 3 Amps minimum, which is around 75% of it's stated maximum. So that will be one hot supply with a short life, me thinks.
If anyone has done or plans to do some experiments, it would be good if you could share your results and experience.
An experiment, I have in mind is to run 2 jogglers off one power supply - because I have more jogglers than power supplies, plus the Jogglers original power supply can provide far more current then a single joggler would ever typically draw. I need to know what current my jogglers are currently drawing, before I do this, as I've no death wish for my jogglers or power supplies. Also I think that a lot of power supplies may be good enough for the joggler, so long as they provide a reasonable 5 Volts and can supply up to 2 Amps, and are comfortable typically providing around an Amp, without running too hot.
I'm thinking of cutting the Joggler's power supply cable and putting a 2 pole jack socket on there and then making an adaptor with one jack plug and 2 sockets. And then have a jack plug and joggler power supply plug. These can then be of the right length. Plus I can easily break into the power supply for each or both jogglers to measure current drawn. I would also have points to measure voltage, without the need to break the supply. This is useful, so I can see how well the power supply under test is managing. Who knows it may even be possible to run 3 jogglers of a single power supply. But the current drawn would have to be the lowest, as the supply would be providing around 3 Amps minimum, which is around 75% of it's stated maximum. So that will be one hot supply with a short life, me thinks.
If anyone has done or plans to do some experiments, it would be good if you could share your results and experience.