https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/15375/current-consumption-in-nrf52832We are a newbie team developing some measurement tests with the nRF52832 DK in order to evaluate the BLE from nRF52832 QFAA80 (s132 and pca10040) for IoT applications. Using the ble_app_beacon to measure the current consumption while nrf52832 is advertisingen-USTelligent Community 13Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:07:11 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/58733?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:07:11 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:3e5951a8-e99d-4614-a664-03e2af0ab5baOle Bauck<p>We actually have measured current consumption and made a tool to estimate the current consumption based on these measurements. You can find the tool here: <a href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/power/">devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../</a></p> <p>The measurements/estimates are only with DCDC enabled, as this greatly reduce the current consumption, especially when running from 3V battery. The DCDC is not enabled by default in the SDK examples. You can enable it with this function:</p> <pre><code>err_code = sd_power_dcdc_mode_set(NRF_POWER_DCDC_ENABLE); APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code); </code></pre> <p>For the beacon example the current consumption should be a bit less since it does not require the radio to switch to RX during the advertisement event (unless you use scan response packets).</p> <p>What was your measured values for advertising and connection? 0.6mA estimated average current seems too high when advertising interval is 200ms and packet size is 23 (0x17) bytes.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>