Re: [Tinyos-help] how to shutdown VCC power output on Tmote sky

2007-01-18 Thread David Moss
VCC is normally connected directly to the battery.  So no, 
you can't control that without unplugging the battery.


Why don't you drive a pin high from the microcontroller to 
power your external resistors? Or, if the current 
consumption is greater than the MSP430 can supply, use a 
GPIO-toggled FET switch to supply current to your 
resistors.


-David


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:00:11 -0600
 "yicheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,



I have some resistors attached to the Analog VCC output 
of my Tmote Sky. Is
there any component that provides the function of 
cutting off VCC output?
Otherwise I have to take out batteries every time I 
don't use it. The
battery will be drawn out quickly if I leave it on the 
Tmote.




Thanks!

Yicheng



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RE: [Tinyos-help] how to shutdown VCC power output on Tmote sky

2007-01-19 Thread yicheng
Hi David,

Is there any example code of using GPIO?

Thanks!
Yicheng

-Original Message-
From: David Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:50 PM
To: yicheng; tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] how to shutdown VCC power output on Tmote sky

VCC is normally connected directly to the battery.  So no, 
you can't control that without unplugging the battery.

Why don't you drive a pin high from the microcontroller to 
power your external resistors? Or, if the current 
consumption is greater than the MSP430 can supply, use a 
GPIO-toggled FET switch to supply current to your 
resistors.

-David


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:00:11 -0600
  "yicheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I have some resistors attached to the Analog VCC output 
>of my Tmote Sky. Is
> there any component that provides the function of 
>cutting off VCC output?
> Otherwise I have to take out batteries every time I 
>don't use it. The
> battery will be drawn out quickly if I leave it on the 
>Tmote.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Yicheng
> 

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