Anyone measured Wyze cam pan power usage?

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I’ll grab some daytime measurements this afternoon and some nighttime measurements this evening and post up tomorrow. They definitely won’t be exact as amount of motor control (panning), cloud uploads, IR strength, etc. have to be taken into consideration. But I’ll try to use max conditions in my scenarios.

A user started to do this for a Cam v2, but it doesn’t look like they finished testing for nighttime measurements:

Wyzecam V2 real-world power usage test

This is DAYTIME usage, which will be less than night mode. I will update this when I can do a night mode test.   Here’s the typical power usage. It goes up and down a bit depending on activity, but you can see from the graph that it varies so little as to barely be a blip. So let’s just go with 1.67 watts as a nominal number. That’s 40 watts a day. If we look at one of the jump start packs with USB out, like my Anker 15k pack, it has 180 watt-hours of capacity. So the camera could run fo…