How to put wixel to sleep, and current savings

[DavidEGrayson]

Hello.

For information on low-power operation of the Wixel, you should look at the CC2511 datasheet and this forum post:

Power Modes

Hello. Some tips for minimizing your Wixel’s power consumption: You’ll definitely need to turn off the radio and any other peripherals that consume a lot of power. The radio_mac library does not support turning off the radio; if you could modify it to do so, that would be great! But alternatively you could avoid using radio_mac: I think the test_radio_signal_tx app would be a good starting point for the app you run on your sensor nodes, and the radio_sniffer app would be a good starting poin…

I think you should put your Wixel into sleep mode 2. Without hacking the Wixel electrically, it will probably draw around 80 microamps of current.

–David