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current drain

current drain

[′kər·ənt ‚drān]
(electricity)
The current taken from a voltage source by a load. Also known as drain.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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This reduces current drain and puts the camera in sleep mode.
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Typical measurement current drain is 385 [micro]A, which corresponds to an average 8.6-pW power consumption if measurements are made once per second.
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When you plugged a heater strip into a battery, the constant current drain quickly exhausted even large batteries.
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