[Power] Power Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 7 July 2012 19:11, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Nicholas for the links,
>
> I got so much useful information the last time I posted here, I want to try
> again:
>
> Does anyone have experience waking up an XO via the RTC?  Manual entries for
> rtcwake make it sound pretty easy. But there's no real substitute for
> experience.
>
> The reason for this request:
>
> The XS, running on the XO, really only needs to be running during the 8-10
> hours of the school day. A 40 watt-hour daily load seems more solar power
> friendly.

Interesting idea. My understanding is that the XO-1.75 has two RTCs -
not sure why.


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia