You can put an ammeter in series and observe the current change. It works, I have tried it. The power consumption when the radio is on for a micaz is 24mA and when it is off is ~5mA.
Raghu Message: 7 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:31:32 -0500 (GMT) From: Pankaj Ghanshani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] RE: Turning radio off and on. To: "Gregory A. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" thanx a lot for the help, i ll try my best to get it working, but how do you observe the power output???? Pankaj Ghanshani On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Gregory A. Moore wrote: > bhushan, > > Turning the radio off and in is as simple as the following: > > RadioControl.stop(); > RadioControl.start(); > > Where in the module file: > uses interface StdControl as RadioControl; > > You can include the previous two statements in any block you would > like. I used them inside of a timer block to make the mote sleep so > that I can save power. > > You can do this with any component on the mote that you wire in the > configuration. > > You can verify the results by observing the power output. > > Hope this helps. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
