Hi Beakybird and all

I talked to my organ tech about the power consumption for the HDM vs the floppy disk drive. He said the floppy drive would use 12 volts and the memory card reader (which I guess is what the HDM really is) takes 5 volts. So, if you are using one or the other at a time, then it appears the HDM would require less power. Also, even though they use 220 current in the Ukraine, they use an ac adaptor just like we do. Which means what's going on inside is the same whatever the current. So it draws the same juice in the US as in Russia. So if the inventor knows it works and is safe "over there" it'll be the same wherever.

This is obviously paraphrased lay language. My tech seemed pretty confident with his answer, but he did end his answer with "I think",and I suppose that would be the way to answere it unless it was right in his hands with the schematics.

Best

Scott Langholff