a little help with capacitive power supply values

[Byte_Butcher]

Hmmm. 0.4 to 1.4 watts when idle sounds like quite a chunk to me.

Say, I've got a couple of Kill-A-Watt's lounging around here somewhere... I'll take one of these little transformers and put it to the 100 hour test like you did with the X-10 modules.

Edit: I just plugged one in and these little transformers, unloaded, show .02W and .09VA. I'll let it run for a few days and see how the watt-hours add up.

I kind of forget about the Kill-A-Watt's unless the grid power is down and I'm running on backup generator. Then I drag 'em out to keep track of voltage and frequency...

steve