redvolt consumption test on sleep mode

[gustavo godinho]

just tested how long a scarlet can hold with a redvolt on sleep mode and normal mode.

i have 2 redvolts. the first one charges no more than 98% and the other no more than 91% (anyone can explain me why?).

98% redvolt ON SLEEP MODE holds the camera for 00:42:21
91% redvolt ON NORMAL MODE holds the camera for 00:35:56

considering that with 7% more power for the normal mode test would give me around 2 minutes more, the difference between modes is something like 5 minutes.

but nobody turns a camera with a redvolt and leaves it sleeping. if your monitor stays half of a charge being used and the other half sleeping, maybe the difference between modes is only 2-3 minutes, right?

any other test like this to compare to?

 

[Niko Pueringer]

Does this mean we're only looking at 2-3 minutes of extra usage with the new power management?

 

[Daniel Kunz]

wow, that would be alot of power savings! /s

 

[Carlos Reyes]

Damn, I've been using the sleep function a lot. I thought it would be a lot more than a couple minutes

 

[Les Dittert]

The camera uses about 4 and a half amps full on. I measured about a 0.2 amp decrease when the screen dims, and another 0.2 amps savings when the camera 'sleeps'.

 

[gustavo godinho]

i tend to get confused for some time looking at dimmed screens until i realize it's not underexposed, so this mode is useless for me. with sleep mode i noticed the screen flicks when it 'wakes'. even with the new firmware. since today is my 1st day with the new firmware, still gotta test more to be certain.

 

[Peter Majtan]

Give them time - Jarred did say this is just a very small first step. They are still figuring things out.
The issue is that in order to have any image of the scene in the monitoring path - dimmed or not - the camera has to be processing the data as it would while recording. The actual process of saving the data to the SSD does not take that much power - so the saving is not huge.
The only significant power saving could be achieved if the monitoring path is turned off. This will still allow us to use the UI - so various settings could be work on in a low-power mode.

What I would personally like to see is a sleep mode triggered by a button. Instead of time-based sleep when after a period of inactivity the camera goes to sleep - I would like to see a function that could assign the sleep mode to a button.
Push the button - camera goes to sleep. Push it again - camera wakes instantly. This would be far more useful in my opinion then a time-delayed sleep mode...

Just my 2 yen

Peter

 

[Carlos Reyes]

Give them time - Jarred did say this is just a very small first step. They are still figuring things out.
The issue is that in order to have any image of the scene in the monitoring path - dimmed or not - the camera has to be processing the data as it would while recording. The actual process of saving the data to the SSD does not take that much power - so the saving is not huge.
The only significant power saving could be achieved if the monitoring path is turned off. This will still allow us to use the UI - so various settings could be work on in a low-power mode.

What I would personally like to see is a sleep mode triggered by a button. Instead of time-based sleep when after a period of inactivity the camera goes to sleep - I would like to see a function that could assign the sleep mode to a button.
Push the button - camera goes to sleep. Push it again - camera wakes instantly. This would be far more useful in my opinion then a time-delayed sleep mode...

Just my 2 yen

Peter

You can already do this, I've mapped one of the buttons on my side handle to do this. I dont have my camera in front of me I think its something like trigger sleep mode

 

[Sam Goldwater]

I haven't tested this: is there a reduction in fan speed on sleep mode enable?

 

[Maik Müller]

I haven't tested this: is there a reduction in fan speed on sleep mode enable?

No.