The hope is that there is a simple way to reduce the power consumption significantly, by turning off the circuits that drive the display. I think equant's motivation is to use a Plus as a 24/7 server, without having to worry about screen burn and global warming.

His results so far are not encouraging, and I worry that the power supply's transient response is too poor to allow a simple mod to do what equant would like. But perhaps a moderately simple mod (TBD) will still work...