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Subject: Re: [motm] Quick question about power consuption

From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
Date: 2005-09-05

At 10:37 PM +0200 2005/09/05, Miguel Mendoza wrote:
>Hello all, please could anybody tell me if when speaking about +-15
>V. 15 ma max. the module consumes 30 ma or only 15.
>Perhaps it's a stupid question but I'm thinking about it and I don't
>find the answer ;-)
>Thanks!
>

Current is drawn separately through the +15V and -15V supplies. So
you could have 30 mA drawn from +15V and 20 mA drawn from -15V. I
suppose if a module draws the same amount from each supply that this
could be annotated as "+-15 V 15 mA" meaning that it draws 15 mA from
each supply for 30 mA total.