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    Battery Meter

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by kfruit, Nov 2, 2010.

  1. kfruit

    kfruit Notebook Consultant

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    Is there any battery meter that tells you what individual items use how much power? For instance how much my USB dongle uses, or how much my WiFi is using? I keep getting really different discharging information (12W-22W) when in power savings mode and I can't for the life of my find out what's making the difference.
     
    kfruit, Nov 2, 2010
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  2. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    Well, USB 2.0 has a max of 2.5W, so that is the first step...
     
    jeremyshaw, Nov 2, 2010
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    Tedster59 Notebook Consultant

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    I find that in batterybar, my charging droid increases the battery usage by around 1k mwh, if that helps anybody
     
    Tedster59, Nov 2, 2010
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  4. Boertje1991

    Boertje1991 Notebook Enthusiast

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    You can't really express power in Wh. It should be just W, because it's per second :)
     
    Boertje1991, Nov 2, 2010
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