Sunday, February 16, 2014

Raspberry Pi Consumption

Measurements done with Charge Doctor that I bought on eBay for few bucks.

System testbed
Raspbian was installed on SD card, kernel 3.10
- Nothing connected except LAN cable

Readings
Starting RPi: 0.08-0.15 A
Boot into Raspbian: upto 0.55 A
Idle with LAN connected: 0.37-0.41 A

apt-uprgade
load files over network: max 0.42 A, CPU 25-40%
install: max 0.49 A

After poweroff: 0.10 A

P.S. CPU consumption
htop : 6%
top: 3%

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