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Old April 15th 05, 05:13 AM
Ralph A. Schmid, DK5RAS
 
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Steve Uhrig wrote:

Encryption usually decreases battery life by about 1/3.

On an XTS5000 running full time encryption and moderately heavy use,
it takes 3 batteries to get through a shift.


This is interesting; all this encryption stuff is relatively new to
me, but I did not yet notice this. So I will have to make some
measurements of the power consumption.



regards - Ralph

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