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SX-126X RX Boosted Gain is a real battery hog (lemmy.zip)
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I have a Seeed SenseCAP T1000-E running fw 2.7.3 and with boosted gain turned off my node drained to 5% in 3 days and 6 hours. With boosted gain on though i have only gotten 2 days 15 hours to 7%. I know they are not the same, but i doubt i would get 16 more hours out of it.

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[โ€“] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did some maths:

  • Without boosted gain 95%/78h ~ 1.21 %/h
  • With boosted gain 93%/63h ~ 1.48 %/h

Difference: Gain drains ~22% faster