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Firmware for Emflex prototypes
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Decrease power consumption #38

Open rspolyak opened 7 years ago

rspolyak commented 7 years ago

Roughly speaking, GSM in power safe mode consumes 1.5mA. In active mode, current consumption may vary from 50-200mAh. There are also 2A spikes. Additionally, MCU, LED and accelerometer should consume less than 5-10mAh. Thus, we have nearly 10mAh consumption most of the time (not including active and high current modes). With 1000mAh battery, gTrack should work nearly 100 hours (4 days).

Actually we have only 2-3 days.

Need to investigate what draws most of the current and how to decrease consumption.