Inserter energy consumption jargon

[evanrinehart]

The infoboxes for all inserters, as well as historical remarks for the burner inserter, refer to the max consumption stat as "energy consumption."

There's been some confusion in a few places about whether this number is the sustained power draw during operation (with or without drain). It's not. Inserters have a more complicated power usage where max consumption only occurs as periodic spikes and average power usage is much less, depending on what its doing.

So basically "energy consumption" of inserters as reported on the wiki isn't reflecting actual power usage in the game very well. Should the infoboxes, which currently report max consumption, say "max consumption"?

If anybody wants to see recent confusion on this, as well as an attempt to get more reliable average power stats see viewtopic.php?p=653701