ok, I don't know what i'm doing wrong. I just took this tmote sky, did this "sleep gesture" and the leds all dimmed out. I had a multimeter between the battery and the minus pole on the board and measured this 35uA. I'm really confused
Roman Cory Sharp wrote: > Sleep mode during program execution is LPM3. With the radio off I > have personally and recently measured this at 6uA. Deep sleep means > LPM4 wich can only be woke from an external reset, which is even lower > power. > > Cory > > On 5/18/06, Roman Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Cory >> >> You described this mode as "deep sleep". I was curious, whether this one >> would come near the current consumption of the one described in the >> tmote sky datasheet as mcu standby, but i measured still 35 μA (not >> 5.1μA) on a tmote right out of the box (with this led glow program >> installed). >> Does anyone know, why these numbers do not agree? >> >> Regards >> Roman >> >> Cory Sharp wrote: >> >> > On 5/18/06, Leijun Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I am new to telosb motes. It seems there is no on/off switch on >> >> telosb. Do I have to remove the batteries to turn it off? Or is there >> >> a more convenient way to do that? >> > >> > >> > When you install TOSBoot, configured when the environment variable >> > TINYOS_NP is set to BNP, which is the default in modern TinyOS >> > distributions, you can put the device into a deep sleep mode by >> > holding the user button while pressing and releasing the reset button. >> > You can identify that TOSBoot is installed by the LED "count down" >> > sequence (all lit, then blue dims out, then green dims out, then red >> > dims out) before the application starts. You can identify that you >> > mote has gone to deep sleep when after performing the described "sleep >> > gesture" all LED's dim out simultaneously. Wake it up again by >> > pressing the reset button or by reprogramming it. >> > >> >> Another similar question is: do I need to remove the batteries when >> >> programming telosb through the USB port? >> > >> > >> > No, you can leave them in. >> > >> >> Thanks a lot for your attention and replies. Installing and removing >> >> batteries for the motes tens of times a day is really a pain :-( >> > >> > >> > No problem, >> > Cory >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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
