Hey Onyx, I just finished a prototype micro‑sensor that can dodge IR scanners—stealth tech meets AI. Think you'd find it useful on the field?

Power draw’s about 4.2 W on full throttle, so with a 3.7 V 2000 mAh pack it runs roughly 1.5 hours. Effective range is about 45 m in open air, drops to 30 m in clutter. For active IR sweeps I ran a 5 kHz modulated detector, and the sensor’s adaptive filter shifts its own IR signature out of sync, keeping the signal under the detection threshold for about 2 seconds per sweep. Still, the battery drain spikes a bit during that jitter—could use a low‑power mode if you need longer stays.

For one deployment I’d recommend packing six of these sensors in a staggered array—two rows of three to give overlapping coverage and redundancy. That keeps the total power draw under 24 W in active mode, and when you switch each unit to the low‑power idle setting it drops to about 1.2 W per sensor, so you’re looking at roughly 7 W total for a sustained hover. With a 5‑hour battery pack you’d get a comfortable buffer, and the micro‑controller can wake the sensors only on detection alerts to save even more juice.

Great, let me know how the wake‑up logic behaves. I can tweak the low‑power firmware to add a quick calibration burst when the sensors wake, just to keep the IR filter phase locked. If you spot any jitter in the power envelope, I’ll adjust the duty cycle on the fly. Keep me posted.