Fairlight-CMI

James, is it really that expensive ?

In the Netherlands, 15 euro-cents per hour for a fairlight is not overly
bad I'd say.. My console uses 480 watts and I have no qualms running it.
If you factor everything in, several fairlights, console, outboard and
lights, it adds up electrically. My prime concern would be groundloop,
heat buildup and electric limitations on the cabling, not the cost.

With regard to your question, subtract 12-15 watts for every harddrive you
detach. Probably 90 watts or so for the memory. Your local do-it-yourself
construction market will have a power consumption meter, they are around
10 euros, it shows current power usage, cumulative, voltage etc.

Regards,
Harald

> Bonjour Laurent,
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> Merci beacoup pour votre reponse ! My CMI MFX-2 has the 32 meg ram card
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> uses an external 3 1/2" optical cartridge drive. Would the consumption be
> significantly less than 480 watts ? The CMI is very expensive to run at
> 480
> watts !!!
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> A bientot,
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> James
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> On 7/6/07 14:57, "Laurent Lemaire" <llemaire1@free.fr> wrote:
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>> Hi James,
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>> I made the measure a few days ago on my CMI 3 (rev6.03)
>> which has got two big ESDI HD and 14Mb of RAM (CMI-39)
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>> The global consumption is 480 Watts.
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>>   Laurent.
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