Better numbers than my pre-production hardware from April, I’m seeing my sense report ~87w averages with 75-110w being normal. Interesting, I see peaks around 150w this week with heavy clouds, good ‘ol ku bands being affected by the weather I expect. Last weeks heavy thunderstorm caused frequent loss, but no total outage at least.

I wonder if it would be possible to run less of the phased array much of the time, let portions of it sleep when it wasn’t trying to move lots of data? Definitely don’t know enough about the system to know if it could operate that way, just speculating.

  -Darrell

On Jun 25, 2021, at 1:23 AM, Mike Puchol <mike@starlink.sx> wrote:

In terms of power usage, most of it is used to drive the phased array, in terms of each individual IC in the array, plus the computational side of determining what each element should be doing, at very high frequency. The terminal consumes more power in receive mode than transmit, funnily enough - because it needs to do more “driving” in order to create a receive spot beam. 

The only way to truly save power would be to decrease the duty cycles, essentially, place Dishy in “sleep” mode for a period of time each slot.

Best,

Mike
On Jun 25, 2021, 4:32 AM +0200, Nathan Owens <nathan@nathan.io>, wrote:
That seems like a pretty good deal, only a small additional price (+5% to the service price) to pay for the ability to get high speed, (mostly) low latency connection where previously not possible. I think it’s pretty impressive they got a phased array which transmits >500km down to 65W. 

—Nathan


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:16 PM Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel@sokolov.eu.org> wrote:
On 2021-06-24 at 6:36 p.m., Nathan Owens wrote:
> The newer dish model pulls closer to 65-70W, fwiw. Might pull more in snow
> melt mode

That is still significant. About 600 kWh a year, which would cost me
about USD 66.

Plus all the electricity required for snow/ice melt - of which I'll need
a lot, given that I live North of 60°.

YMMV, depending on your cost of electricity.
Daniel

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