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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:03:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No Thumbs??? (lack of concensus)
Message-ID:  <199512012303.PAA17277@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199512012236.PAA11910@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Dec 1, 95 03:36:09 pm

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I doubt your tape drive is disipating 15 Watts!
that's 3 AMPS at 5V
lot bloody likely..
actually some of these drives seem to run quite a bit mor ethan 15 watts.

believe me these drives get HOT as in

*touch* "OUCH!"

julian
> 
> Yeah but power is power.  If you dissipate 10 - 15W, it doesn't matter
> *what* is dissipating the power!  So, 2X would be in the 20 - 30W range
> (comparable to the tape drive).
> 




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