[Tinyos-devel] more bugging about current consumption on MicaZ in tinyos-2.x

[Philip Levis]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:08, Razvan Musaloiu-E. wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A few weeks ago I wrote [1] on the tinyos-help list about some high
> consumptions on MicaZ in tinyos-2.x. I rerun the tests using the beta2 and
> the results I'm getting are still wrong. I attached a small application
> that demonstrate this. Its based on the TestSleep [2] (which doesn't
> compile) and the only thing it does is to call the McuSleep.sleep() in
> Boot.booted(). The current value I'm getting is 0.14mA. Could someone else
> run the program and confirm or disprove this problem? :-)

I tested with the app Null on a micaz and measured a current draw of 2
uA. Can you verify whether you measure this (or a similar value,
expected is <5uA and max is 10uA) as well?

Phil