Has anyone seen a consumption difference between Moteino R4 and Moteino Trace antenna when using the low power library?
I have a compost sensor (thermistor) and when it's plugged in the moteino R4 I get around 300uAmp but when connected on the Trace antenna moteino I can't seem to go lower than 12mAmp
The code is pretty straightforward and it's the same on. both nodes:
radio.sleep();
flash.sleep();
//439 for 1 hour? SLeep_*S is 8192ms
for (i = 0; i< j; i++)
LowPower.powerDown(SLEEP_8S, ADC_OFF, BOD_OFF);
sendCurrentThermistorTemp();
Any idea? thanks!
Edit1: I just tried with another moteino R4 and I get 3.7mAmp - - I'm measuring using power coming from the ftdi cable to a small voltmeter and then to the moteino... maybe my setup for measuring is not correct - will spend more time double checking my connections..
Like I said, the only difference is the onboard antenna. If there is a FLASH MEM ensure you put that to sleep as well, although the deepsleep examples do that optionally for you using this:
#define WITH_SPIFLASH //comment this line out if you don't have the FLASH-MEM chip on your Moteino