{"id":3134,"date":"2019-02-19T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:16:07","slug":"whats-the-affect-of-changing-the-power-on-the-ib003n-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/whats-the-affect-of-changing-the-power-on-the-ib003n-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Affect of Changing the Power on the iB003N-PA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The iB003N-PA has a range up to 300m because it uses the RFAXIS X2401C<\/a> 2.4GHz amplifier to increase the range. <\/p>\n\n\n

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iB003N-PA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When you use the manufacturer app to change the power output by a beacon, you are changing the power output by the Nordic nRF51 System on a Chip (SoC) that is usually fed to the antenna. In the case of the iB003N-PA, the RFAXIS X2401C instead receives the signal, amplifies it and sends it to the antenna. The resultant change in output is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SoC Setting <\/strong><\/td> X2401C Output <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
0dbm <\/td> 20dBm <\/td><\/tr>
4dbm <\/td> 20dBm <\/td><\/tr>
-5dbm <\/td> 15dBm <\/td><\/tr>
-10dbm <\/td> 10dBm <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

20dBm is the maximum allowable output for class 1 Bluetooth. There’s no difference whether you set to 0dBm or 4dBm, the output will be 20dBm. Even at a low power setting, -10dbm, the amplified output is 10dBm which is relatively high compared to the nominal 0dBm for most beacons. That’s just over 3x the power (3dBm change is a doubling of power) of a normal beacon. You can see that this beacon is primarily designed for long distance and there’s no need to change the SoC power from the default 0dBm = 20dBm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The iB003N-PA has a range up to 300m because it uses the RFAXIS X2401C 2.4GHz amplifier to increase the range. When you use the manufacturer app to change the power output by a beacon, you are changing the power output by the Nordic nRF51 System on a Chip (SoC) that is usually fed to the … Continue reading “What’s the Affect of Changing the Power on the iB003N-PA?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,65,41,171,107,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}