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| Jan 10, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Michael | @PeterMortensen: I meant for the total duration you can measure in order to estimate battery runtime (i.e. average power over time). If OP’s device performs things like e.g. periodic measurements in 0.5s intervals then it would be sufficient to measure for a few seconds. If OP’s device performs more complex tasks over longer time then he/she would need a different approach. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 22:43 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | It is much better than seconds. The analog bandwidth is 8 kHz for the original μCurrent and 300 kHz for μCurrent GOLD (the Kickstarter one). I have measured 1 ms current transients for a Raspberry Pi using this setup. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 15:56 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |