Thanks for that info, I should change my code. Since I'm in an early state of development, my code currently just simulates shutting down by not reading the adc and not paying attention to the radio.
Something seems to be going on when I don't read the ADC, because my sensors are very sensitive to the state of the ADC. I get very different readings when I skip reading the ADC for 2 seconds as opposed to reading it continuously. I have changed the code to turn on the reference voltage generator all the time. Maybe I didn't do that correctly. Eric On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't call release, then TinyOS can't power down the ADC and > let the MCU drop into a lower power state. If you're not concerned > with idle draw, then this doesn't matter, but if you want a long node > lifetime, it does. Kevin's SOSP 2007 paper goes into the details. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
