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John___Angela
Explorer
Oct 15, 2013

Interesting results of power use audit when dry camping.

So we have been dry camping for about a week in fairly lousy and cold weather (read below freezing every night. So as we have to be here for a few more days I decided to see what sucks the most power...
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NinerBikes
Explorer
Oct 28, 2013
tpi wrote:
I've posted it before-my year old 13" Macbook Air w/ solid state drive draws about 8-20 watts depending on what it is doing. Generally about 10 watts for web browsing. The tablets use even less. If you use computers a lot while dry camping, check into the latest solid state drive computers w/ LED screens.


My Samsung Google Chromebook is similar in draw. chrome://system/ will give you the answer once in it, go to "power supply draw" while unplugged.

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