I guess that's right. I have similar readings myself. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Sunday, November 16, 2008 a las 01:49:57AM +0100, Minh Ha Duong > escribió: > >> Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, Matthias Apitz a écrit : >> >I don't know if it reduces the drawing of power (btw: what is the >> >easiest method to measure it? pulling out the battery and measure the >> >power consumption via the cable?); >> >> I would use something like the attached "battery.py" script to measure >> power. >> >> Minh > > Thanks for this; I have had an older version without the detailed > information about power drain and so; It is a bit tricky to use such a > Python tool to measure things because it has to much effect in the power > consumption by its own; maybe I will just collect in the future the data > from the /sys/... files and draw the figured later based on them; > > for now I've tested it with your "battery.py", here are the numbers: > > 181 mA -- nearly empty FR (only "battery.py" and Terminal running) > 231 mA -- after launch of GPSD > 183 mA -- after stop of GPSD > 189-232 mA -- after Wifi-up with, running 'ping' through eth0 > 184-186 mA -- after Wifi-down > > For me this reads that the Wifi chip is already powered-up on boot; the > diff between before (181) and after using it (184-186) is not very big; > right? > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ > b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ > A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows > Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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