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Subject:Re: stereo power comsumption
From:Todd P Last
Date:Sat, 23 May 2009 22:39:09 -0700

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<font face="Century Gothic">I had the same problem with my Pioneer
Stereo - it would run the battery down in a few days of sitting.</font><br>
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Richard A Jones wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">Idle time....  I had observed that my stereo sometimes
had run my battery down.  I decided to measure the
power consumption:

Panasonic in-dash CD player CQ-C3400 series (~2004)
[It is rated at something like 2.2 A, max.]

FM at vol 20            0.65 A
CD at vol 14            0.80
mp3 CD                  0.78

OFF                     0.35 &lt;--------  !!
face down               0.37
face removed            0.02  whew!

Complete measurements at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/Panasonic.txt">http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/Panasonic.txt</a>

[I was measuring across fuse 3 in my '87 Syncro Westy. All
measurements include the digital dash clock.]

Richard

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