Hold down the button on the salvage beam without letting up. It will draw power for the first firing cycle, but then the power draw ceases completely.
The beam continues firing (and continues mining resources / destroying blocks - tested) for unlimited time, but no power is ever drawn again nor does the cooldown cycle restart.
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