Information on micro esb power consumption

[Matt]

Hello,

Is there any information on current consumption for the nRF51822 when running the micro-esb examples? I'm curious as to how much current is being used in a situation like the micro-esb uart example where the chip is spending a majority of it's time sleeping.

Also in this example, is the chip waking up every so often to check for messages? Or is there an interrupt generated when the radio is receiving a signal.

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi Matt,

I'm sorry, but we do not have any detailed numbers on the power consumption of the micro-esb examples. We provide these as an example for you to build upon, but we have not fully integrated power-management of the components used, which is in this case, the UART. For the micro-esb-uart example that you're linking to, it will have a high base-current due to the UART running while in sleep mode.

micro-esb will have interrupts enabled for the radio-events. It will give an interrupt on the END-event.

Cheers, Håkon