Advertising consume more power compared to connection?

[Ziyao Zhou]

Hi,

I am sending out same payload through ADV packet and BLE connection packet, I notice the ADV consume more power compared to connection one,which is quite strange.

The result I have is here, is this correct? What is the reason, thank you so much!

[Turbo J]

Radio on-time is a bit shorter in the "connected" case if - and only if- there is no or very little data to exchange.

Remember that connectable advertizer has to listen to scan request or connect attempts after each advertizement, so the radio will spend some time in RX mode.

[Ziyao Zhou]

Hi,

I am using the ADV that is not connectable, My thought when using the ADV packet to send data, the power will be lower than connection data transfer.

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

In the Online Power profiler, you can see how Advertising (TX Only) compares to connection (Peripheral). How does the difference there look?