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FED3 battery life

A project log for Feeding Experimentation Device 3 (FED3)

Version 3 of our home-cage feeding device, FED. FED3 includes nosepokes and stimuli for behavioral training.

lex-kravitzLex Kravitz 10/18/2018 at 16:060 Comments

We performed a real-world test with a singly hosued mouse training on FR1 for 5 days.  Here is the battery discharge curve, indicating that FED3 can last about 5 days of continuous use on a charge.  This can probably be improved by optimizing sleep modes further (it currently sleeps whenever a pellet is in the well), but it seems good enough for our purposes.

He took 345 pellets during this time, also note that pellets taken are higher at night.

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