Bench.fxe


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I wrote a small GP32 software to test battery autonomy on GP32.
I add a SMC write/read bench too even if results seems to be not very different from one card to another (the gp32 itself may be the main speed limiter)

link: http://yaouank.gp32news.com (hosted by http://www.gp32news.com )
Screenshots:
interface:
interface.gif


running bench:
battery.gif
 
it wasnt using this test, but i have some interesting info.

8 hours with 2100mah Ni-Mi;blu enabled.(yes test with blu unit, please no questions ;)
ah! playing a divx 88 hours battery duration seeing a divx
 
ilarri posted on Apr 21 2004 at 11:14 AM said:
it wasnt using this test, but i have some interesting info.

8 hours with 2100mah Ni-Mi;blu enabled.(yes test with blu unit, please no questions ;)
ah! playing a divx 88 hours battery duration seeing a divx
who tested that??
 
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Meonlyeviler posted on Apr 21 2004 at 01:35 AM said:
Aquafish already posted about it, but it looks cool
Sorry, I didn't knew (and he didn't told me).
rcx2100, your result is now published on the page.
 
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How exactly does it calculate the battery life? Forgive me if the answer is blatently obvious :lol:
 
Enslaved posted on Apr 21 2004 at 02:08 PM said:
I think you run it till the batterys run out and it adds to a log file every 10 seconds.
Quite exact.
Precisely, it saves running time to a file every 15 minutes.
The first beta version did it every 15s and running times were very short. It seems that writing on SMC eats battery more than I thought.
 
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Does it consume power if you are inputting controlls as well? For example if I left opensnes9x on an intro at 156mhz would it run down just as fast if I played the game at the same speed?
 
Dozer posted on Apr 21 2004 at 05:03 PM said:
Does it consume power if you are inputting controlls as well? For example if I left opensnes9x on an intro at 156mhz would it run down just as fast if I played the game at the same speed?
Honestly, I don't know. My instinct told me that battery consumption should be the same during the intro and during the play of a snes game.

The goal of my soft was to compare different brand of battery with the minimum amount of subjectivity.
If run at the same clock speed on two different gp32 (mine and one of someone that is 1000km away from me for example), bench.fxe will do EXACTLY the same operation inside our gp32.
Same program, (quite) same hardware, if the bench is longer on its gp32 it is because this guy has a better battery.

If we all launch this test (say, at 133MHz, flu off, sound 100%), we could gather our results and establish a list of which battery is better than which one.
 
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