|  | | Got Power?| I made great progress last night.  I have the breadboard assembled and most of the components working.  Well, working enough to get some power readings. 
 This Propeller board is nice because there are drivers for everything I want to use.  I just merge lots of code and it seems to just flow together.
 
 1) The base board takes - 39mA.
 2) Displaying lots of pixels on the screen - 150mA.
 3) Base board + everything (no screen) - 65mA
 4) Everything (just text on screen) - 90mA
 
 The board starts with 5V and a 3.3V regulators.  I only need 3.3V, so I pulled the 5V and lowered the energy requirement 10-15mA.
 
 This really calls into question my 9V battery pack.  That's almost 2x the voltage (and weight) that I need.  The 3.3V regulator needs 4.75-26V.
 
 I may also be able to wire the board so I can shut down components and add a sleep mode.
 
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