On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Bach wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just did a simple experiment of the tmote sky, or telosB, to measure its 
> current consumption when the radio transmission power is set at different 
> level. 
> I changed the makefile "CFLASS += -DCC2420 DEF RFPOWER” to different value 
> and 
> did observe the change in communication range, which means the transmission 
> power was changed. However, the total current consumptions were almost the 
> same 
> (both around 18mA). (The way I measure the current is by cascading a small 
> resistor to the power supply (10 ohm). )

What is your sampling frequency? You might just be observing the receive power 
draw, which is independent of transmit power, or the sum of receive and 
transmit, with transmit being a very small fraction (spending most time in 
receive).

Phil


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