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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:26:31 GMT prashant desai <prashant.desai@iqara.net> wrote:
> can anyone tell me how much electrical load(in Kva) a
> cisco 2500 routers takes ?

The only way to find out for sure is to measure the current your one is
using with a clamp meter. Different versions of the 2500 will use different
amounts of power - possibly even different revisions of the same model will
differ.

For an absolute maximim value, look at the data plate on the back of the
router. (VA = Volts * Amps) So if it's 230V @ 0.5 that's a maximum of
115VA. (That's using data taken from cisco.com for a 2500 in Europe.) In
practice, I suspect you'd see less than half that power being used.

--
Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
<ryan@complicity.co.uk> - http://www.complicity.co.uk

I'm not losing my mind, no I'm not changing my lines,
I'm just learning new things with the passage of time

I measured our 2508 a yaer or two ago for checking our UPS, my logs show
the router took 29 W. (For reference, a PC server with 3 harddrives took
43 W).

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ryan O'Connell wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:26:31 GMT prashant desai <prashant.desai@iqara.net> wrote:
> > can anyone tell me how much electrical load(in Kva) a
> > cisco 2500 routers takes ?
>
> The only way to find out for sure is to measure the current your one is
> using with a clamp meter. Different versions of the 2500 will use different
> amounts of power - possibly even different revisions of the same model will
> differ.
>
> For an absolute maximim value, look at the data plate on the back of the
> router. (VA = Volts * Amps) So if it's 230V @ 0.5 that's a maximum of
> 115VA. (That's using data taken from cisco.com for a 2500 in Europe.) In
> practice, I suspect you'd see less than half that power being used.
>
> --
> Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
> <ryan@complicity.co.uk> - http://www.complicity.co.uk
>
> I'm not losing my mind, no I'm not changing my lines,
> I'm just learning new things with the passage of time
>
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