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Iriver h320 / power draw

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GaardenZwerch:
Hi,

given that the unit can be charged from USB, I'd guess that you are safe with 5 V and 500 mA. I believe the stock charger is rated 5V/900mA, so that should really suffice.

I guess that the iRiver always draws the power from the battery, so that acts as a buffer if the device should need peaks of power (writing to disk for example).....
HtH,

Frank

petur:

--- Quote from: Oakbough on March 06, 2007, 03:28:11 PM ---I need to know if there is a difference in the power draw of the iriver h320 using rockbox, as opposed to the standard iriver software.

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In general Rockbox is a bit more efficient than the original firmware, users have reported longer times, although this applies to playback, not recording. It's impossible to compare the two for recording as the original firmware will abort after certain time (depends on bitrate) where rockbox does seamless filesplitting till your disk is full :)


--- Quote from: Oakbough on March 06, 2007, 03:28:11 PM ---I am setting up remote systems where I need to know how much this unit will draw under recording situations.

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The only numbers I have is that when my unit was about one year old, I did a recording test with RockBox and it managed to record 12 hours with original battery. As noted above, maybe provide external power to be safe?

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