Sergio: Just a wild guess: when the RF230 is turned on, it's not in its lowest power state. You have to explicitly include ActiveMessageC in your application to allow for the RF230 init code to run, which will put the radio chip into its lowest power state.
Janos On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Sergio Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been able to somewhat reduce the power consumed by an ATM1281-based > Zigbit device by switching off the radio and the UART port (via > SerialActiveMessageC) during periods of inactivity, but I've been unable > to get below 0.4 mA. I tried to explicitly disable the I2C bus as well > as, but there was no change. The corresponding fuses for the watchdog > timer, the brownout detector and the on-chip debugger are already > (un)programmed. I also tried lowering the MCU's clock frequency, but > anything other than 8 Mhz won't compile. Stopping the ADC converter does > not seem to make any difference either. Has anybody had better luck with > an Iris, Meshbean, or any other device with the ATM1281/RF230 combo? > > Thanks, > > Sergio > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
