On Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:13:43 -0500, you wrote:

>Mike..
>As luck will have it, I am on a project that is almost exactly like yours.
>It has a 1.2M crystal, a 32K crystal on the T1 line, a static LCD like you
>mentioned, and it runs on 3V.  Our initial prototype with fully functional
>software draws the following values.  In fully awake mode, without buzzer or
>backlight on, it draws 430uA.  In semi-sleep (T1 wakes every half second,
>I'm prestuffing the timer) I measure 89uA. 
Oh, dear, looks like I'll have to look elsewhere to get that 10 year
life from a 1AH battery, then!
This figure seems a little high - I recently did a product with an
Epson LCD chip, with 4:1 mux (presumably more power hungry), which
took about 40uA at 5V. 

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