Attract mode power consumption

That is pretty impressive for the new spike system.

Are you testing with incandescent bulbs in the older machines, or LEDs?

Funny jpops spare no expense even on power consumption seems to follow his legacy.

All kidding aside some nice info thanks for collecting.

What did you use to measure? Model brand power meter.

Wrestlemania does too, but that should be obvious.

I have all my games set to drop to the lowest setting on power saver level (GI illumination power saver setting) after 2 min. Did you test that feature to see what difference it makes?

Used to own tri-zone....surprised to see an oldie so far up that list.

cool stuff

All the new sterns have LEDs so those should be low. Possibly led based DMD too?

Old games had very few lamps at all, so I guess that makes sense.

The real shocker is swep1 which is powering both a playfield EoD full of incandescent lamps, but also an older computer and CRT. I guess powering the crt and the trade off for the flourecsent backglass bulb works out even to a lot of incandescence with the old 80v+ plasma DMDs?

Thanks for putting this info up, Always wondered this,

I bet the power difference between attract mode and full-on gameplay isn't very large - for the most part the only difference is having a solenoid firing every second or two. Sound doesn't make much difference.

Good to see Stern seems to have figured it out. I'd guess they went to switching power supplies / switching regulators throughout (so much of the heat / power draw in old machines is from the linear power supply losses) and LEDs (most of the rest of the power is from incandescent lights). Maybe they also have a more modern microprocessor with a good low-power mode.

Now I'm curious about the power draw of the new boutique games...

Very Cool - thanks for posting this info.

Would love to see results of same game before power saver mode and then after power saver mode starts.

You could save even more power on your stern machines with a self dimming backbox panel.

http://www.arcadeupkeep.com/backbox-kits/4587457160

Saves over 75% power usage, compared to the fluorescent tube, at full brightness. Over 95% power savings when dimmed, save more power while the power draw is the heaviest!