# Typical power consumption / battery life?

**URL:** <https://forums.digi.com/t/typical-power-consumption-battery-life/1213>\
**Category:** XBee - DigiMesh\
**Created:** [September 15, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/typical-power-consumption-battery-life/1213 "2009-09-15T05:28:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@jamieb](https://forums.digi.com/u/jamieb)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/typical-power-consumption-battery-life/1213/1 "2009-09-15T05:28:21Z")

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I’m looking at some of the DigiMesh tech for a project I’m working on. The idea of synchronized sleeping of routers is very interesting. I was wondering what type of battery life users are experiencing in the field?

(I’d probably be using ~1000mAh battery and a waking-up every 10 seconds or so to transmit a couple of bytes.)