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David Kadish edited this page Aug 15, 2023 · 14 revisions

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Teensy OLED mA mW
F0 y 134 546

F0 : Full Power, minimal processing

Power Testing

Device Current (mA) Power (mW) Method
SD 20 80 Regulator off
WIO-E5 9 36 Low Power Mode
Total 29 116

SD Card

The SD Card power consumption was tested by turning the SD Card regulator on and off and measuring the difference in current and power using the built-in fuel gauge.

In SDIO mode using the SDFat library, the SD Card was initialise using sd.begin(SdioConfig(FIFO_SDIO)) and the power was measured for 20 seconds. Then the power was measured for 20 seconds with the power to the SD Card's 3.3v regulator turned off.

Mode Current (mA) Power (mW)
Dis -126 -505
En -146 -585
Dis -126 -505
En -146 -584
Dis -126 -505
En -146 -584

It seems like there's a 20 mA (80 mW) difference in draw with the SD card enabled over a measured span of 20 s. So it might be worth keeping the independent regulator.

WIO-E5

The WIO-E5 power consumption was tested by switching the chip to low power mode using the AT+LOWPOWER command. The command and mode was verified by echoing the command and response via Serial to a laptop before disconnecting the laptop to log power consumption.

Mode Current (mA) Power (mW)
Dis -115 -462
En -124 -498
Dis -115 -461
En -124 -497
Dis -115 -461
En -124 -497

A difference of 9 mA (36 mW) was measured over a span of 20 s. It's unclear if an additional regulator would further reduce this.

I have not tested auto low power mode or the impact of turning the serial connection off (which is recommended). There seems to be a Serial.end() function, which should do the trick.

Teensy Sleep Modes

NB: Snooze v6.3.9 does not work on Teensy MM. It will not program properly. It requires modifications listed in https://github.com/duff2013/Snooze/issues/114. I have forked the library and applied these and overridden the Teensy library version and it seems to work (at least partially).

Teensy sleep modes are tested with 5V USB power though the USB Power monitor (battery not attached).

Mode Voltage (V) Current (mA) Power (mW)
On 5.07 112 570
Sleep 5.10 27 140
Sleep 5.10 17 86
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