Re: powerbudget of freerunner?

2009-02-02 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
joa...@verona.se writes:
 I would like to calculate how large battery capacity I need to have all
 the subsystems running(wifi, gps, gsm, bluetooth) + an external 3g
 modem. I would like to have 24h continuous uptime without suspend. (if i
 need a car battery to do it, so be it :)

$ wget http://iki.fi/lindi/openmoko/energy2.txt
$ cut -d' ' -f6 energy2.txt | sort -n | tail -n1
896437

shows that the largest peak consumption I have ever hit is 900 mA
(voltage is around 4.3 V).

$ grep Discharging energy2.txt | cut -d' ' -f6 | grep ^[1-9]  a
$ gnuplot
gnuplot set terminal dumb
gnuplot plot a

90 ++-+-+--+-+--+--+-+--+-+-A+
   +  + +  + +  +  + +  + a + A  AA+
80 ++  A++
   |   A |
70 ++  A++
   |   A |
   |   A |
60 ++  A++
   |   A |
50 ++  A++
   |  AA |
40 ++AA ++
   |     |
30 ++AA ++
   |     |
   |     |
20 ++ AA++
   | AA  |
10 ++   AA  ++
   +    +  + +  +  + +  + +  +
 0 AAA+-+--+-+--+--+-+--+-+-++
   0 500   1000   1500  2000   2500   3000  3500   4000  4500  5000


shows that the normal consumption in my use is around 300 mA.

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Re: powerbudget of freerunner?

2009-02-02 Thread joakim
Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi writes:

 joa...@verona.se writes:
 I would like to calculate how large battery capacity I need to have all
 the subsystems running(wifi, gps, gsm, bluetooth) + an external 3g
 modem. I would like to have 24h continuous uptime without suspend. (if i
 need a car battery to do it, so be it :)

 $ wget http://iki.fi/lindi/openmoko/energy2.txt$ cut -d' ' -f6 energy2.txt | 
 sort -n | tail -n1
 896437

 shows that the largest peak consumption I have ever hit is 900 mA
 (voltage is around 4.3 V).

 $ grep Discharging energy2.txt | cut -d' ' -f6 | grep ^[1-9]  a
 $ gnuplot
 gnuplot set terminal dumb
 gnuplot plot a

 90 ++-+-+--+-+--+--+-+--+-+-A+
+  + +  + +  +  + +  + a + A  AA+
 80 ++  A++
|   A |
 70 ++  A++
|   A |
|   A |
 60 ++  A++
|   A |
 50 ++  A++
|  AA |
 40 ++AA ++
|     |
 30 ++AA ++
|     |
|     |
 20 ++ AA++
| AA  |
 10 ++   AA  ++
+    +  + +  +  + +  + +  +
  0 AAA+-+--+-+--+--+-+--+-+-++
0 500   1000   1500  2000   2500   3000  3500   4000  4500  
 5000


 shows that the normal consumption in my use is around 300 mA.

Fantastic answer, thanks!

-- 
Joakim Verona


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