Hi! In my application, disabling the radio reduced the power consumption from ~20mA to ~2mA (this is Idle mode). To get the MicaZ in the Power Save mode I had to wired the HPLPowerManagementM and call the enable() function. After that the consumption dropped to about 0.2mA.
I hope this helps... -- Razvan ME On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Harri Siirtola wrote: > > Sorry, my previous reply was a bit confusing. Power saving is there by > default in the latest installations, all you have to do is "stop" the radio > and serve pending interrupts (timers can be left running, of course). > That's what you can see in the CountRadio apps. > > Regards, > > Harri > > At 02:16 AM 1/11/2006 -0500, Ivan Wing Mau Cheung wrote: > >Hi, > > > >The mote is used to keep track of light intensity but need a power-saving > >solution to extend the battery life. Due to this constraint, the processor > >Atmel ATmega128L cannot be changed to other states, such as Power Down or > >Power Save. However, I am thinking of whether it is possible to power down > >the antenna of Micaz since it still consumes large amount of power in > >receiving mode. But I couldn't find any commands in TinyOS that allows me > >to do so. Does anybody encounter this problem before? Does anybody have > >any idea of conserving power according to this constraint? > > > >Thank you, > >Ivan > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
