Re: LZ: Power Consumption
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IN>On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Edward Plese wrote:
IN>> How much power does the TI-85 draw when it's on in both normal OS and
IN>ZShell. Also, how much power does it draw when it's off?
IN>>
IN>> Thanks,
IN>> Ed Plese, Jr.
IN>> (eplese@lnd.com)
IN>Here's the appropriate bits snarfed from Magnus' test results that he did
IN>a while ago..
IN> Operation Mode Power Consumption Battery Life Notes
IN> Normal stand-by 4.9mA 245 hours When waiting for keyboard input
IN> Normal active 15.8mA 76 hours When calculating, graphing, running
IN> program etc
IN> Normal shutdown 0.8ľA 1500000 hours = 171 years When turned off using
IN> [2nd][ON]
IN> Normal auto-shutdown 0.8ľA 171 years When left on until auto-shutdown
IN> ZShell menu 4.7mA 255 hours When ZShell is waiting for you to chose
IN> which program to run. As you see, ZShell is even better than the
IN> TI-OS. Add HALT instructions to your program's keyloops, and they will
IN> be about this good too!
IN> ZShell running 16.6mA 72 hours When a ZShell program is running
IN> ZShell shutdown 0.8ľA 171 years When ZShell is shut down, or when
IN> auto-shutdown happened from within ZShell
Auto-shutdown can't happen in Zshell 4.0.
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