Fairlight-CMI

Hi James,

I'm not too sure, likely because of fewer memory, but the diskette drives
do spin all the time so that uses electricity. I really should do a test
on all the equipment to find out.

Best regards,
Harald.


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> Hi Harald,
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> Thanks for your post. I presume that the CMI 2X uses much less power than
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> series 3 ? I will try and calculate an accurate usage for the whole
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> Many thanks,
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> James Thomson
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> On 7/6/07 16:41, "Harald Feldmann" <feldmann@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> James, is it really that expensive ?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
>> Harald
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>>> 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
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>>> 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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