Has your NVMe affected your battery at all?

[belfastraven]

I have a new alternate USB cord arriving later today, and a pair of modern bricks that will hopefully work well. I made sure they matched the power requirements from the wiki. I'll probably try it out, too.

Quick edit: I just opened up the PBP (sleeping CrOS on emmc) and CrOS is giving me a battery level indication of 70% (and climbing!) 66 has been surpassed! I'll still be doing testing later to compare the 3 potential charging setups. Hopefully, though, the PBP is fully charged by the time EOD rolls around and I can verify no loss in battery health. Now I do wonder if this was a combination of high power consumption from the NVMe drive, and how Linux handled the drive once installed.

There are messages scattered thoughout the forum, but
just FYI,  here's one thread about power issues with USB devices...https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8643

I didn't have to configure my internal NVME al all,  and it has been fine.  When I was using a USB-C attached  device with sd ports, ethernet, HDMI,  with just the ethernet port being used (I did this when the wifi was not working properly), even while pluugged into mains,  the battery would lose power slightly.   I have a couple of older samsung portable ssd's (T1's).  I plugged one in yesterday and could see faster battery depletion. It was working fine but after hearing about your experience,  I did not leave it infor very long....  I have used it as my boot and only drive on an rock64 and a pineh64,but of course, no battery was involved.