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How much power does a timer use?

I am simulating button presses on a peripheral nRF51 device to determine average battery life. I send "button state" to central in a timer every 10s, with which I simulate 8640 button presses per day which is equal to a few months of usage in normal use-case. I use app_timer library.

How much power would this additional timer use on average? Could the power consumption be reflected in dramatically shorter battery life?

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