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

[Philip Levis]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:00 AM, Murray, Ben wrote:

>
>
> With the BOD disabled I get the same results as originally posted  
> (hundreds
> of uA at 3.0V, hundreds or tens of uA in the 2.5-2.8V region, <10uA  
> at about
> 2.3-2.4V, and hundreds again at 2.1-2.2V) With BOD fully enabled
> (wr_fuse_l=24) the current stuck at around 8-9mA (note: mA, not uA)  
> and with
> it part-enabled (wr_fuse_l=A4) the same pattern as the original was  
> observed
> between 2.7-3.0V but at anything less than 2.7V the current jumps  
> up to the
> several-mA region.
>

I ran tests on some micaZs here and didn't see the same behavior. The  
current jumped to the mA region at about 2.2V, but before that point  
was 2-6uA.

Other folks in core who have micazs are going to test them.

Phil