January 2012
Beginner
86 pages
1h 58m
English
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Power Out
A BasicX-24 requires 20mA itself, plus up to 40mA per I/O channel used. An Arduino requires 50mA, plus the same 40mA per I/O channel used. The bulk of sensors used will be passive, which is to say they require no additional power past that provided by the I/O connections. Finally, a Radiometrix UHF transceiver uses 27mA to receive and 110mA to transmit a 100mW signal; boosting it to 500mW (e.g., Radiometrix AF2S amplifier) requires 2mA when receiving but a hefty 250mA additional power when transmitting.
We can now calculate our power budget, as shown in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1. Power budget
CPU | 50mA |
Radio (waiting) | 30mA |
Sensors (assuming four) | 4 x 40mA = 160mA |
Radio (transmitting) | 750mA |
Power usage, nominal | 240mA |
Power usage, transmitting | 990mA |
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