1.   According to Ken Landau of Landware, the power drain is minimal.

2.   Buffalo has experienced an offensive power drain the past month.

3.   Relatively cheap, transistors did their amplification without the heat, bulk and heavy power drain of vacuum tubes, whose evacuated glass cylinders glowed like dim light bulbs.

4.   That way the power drain would never get big enough to short out the beleaguered electricity grid.

5.   The single biggest power drain in large buildings, she said, is for the motors that drive fans moving air internally.

6.   The surge in electricity use by people returning indoors after the eclipse caused the biggest power drain Britain has ever experienced.