[ originally posted in a corrupted thread ]
I tried to eyeball the label on the back in the fuzzy images shown on the ecommerce site but could not read it. Reading between the lines it gets warm/hot so I'd like to know how much of a hit to expect on the UPS.
[ later but not yet up to date ]
The label on the back of the Vodafone Sure Signal (VSS3) hardware subsequently received carried NO information at all about how much power it draws. It started out drawing circa 2Watts (6VA with power factor) but it is just in idle (aka 'connecting'). I cannot get any further down the installation line because VF have, for the last three days, been so-called TWEAKING the My Sure Signal [sic] in the My Vodafone area. Tweaking for three days is NOT tweaking, it's a good old fashioned OUTAGE. VF should come clean and admit reality for what is patently obviously is... I await VF sorting themselves out.
[ currently ]
VF sorted itself out eventually. VSS3 now successfully hooked up and it is supplying our home with a better signal inside than is available outside by the area's regional main tower.
[ power drawn normally :: single permanent user ]
About 4Watts (10VA with power factor) is drawn from the UPS.
That drawn power figure (4W) does not significantly change whether the permanent single user is fully active (making or receiving a call) or not.
[ how warm it gets ]
* idle/connecting phase (2W) VSS3 feels "noticeably warm"
* fully connected phase (4W) VSS3 feels "surprisingly hot"
Once my commissioning nears completion I expect to fit a nearby external 'free air' equipment fan to help with heat dissipation - much as I would do with a bench mounted HDD during extended testing. Surprisingly poor design. Recommend a metallic (heat radiating) top half casing and the necessary relocation of the aerial assembly lower by the CAT5 ports (avoids Faraday cage effect).
Reading between the lines around the forum I may be expecting a future crowbar-across-the-mains catastrophic failure due, probably, to a 'drying out' electrolytic capacitor. I take a dim view of both the alleged purchasing and/or manufacturing process that allowed this to occur along with the above poor heat dissipating design - being pretty much fully encased in a plastic heat insulating material. Due to the feed through design there is no externally accessable fuse. To improve safety, to my own satisfaction, I have chosen to install all of this via a low current fused electrical spur aiming to avert a possible incendiary event or an enforced emergency cutout at the UPS (which also supplies essential kit elsewhere).
Vodafone (actually Alcatel the manufacturer ...specified here so as to be picked up by search engines in due course) could do better - should do better.
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