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How to read Power Profiler Kit Measurements

Hi,

I have a beacon that uses 4 AA batteries, each has 1.5V and 2600 mAh. When connecting the board to the PPK I get the attached measurements when doing a lot of scanning and advertising:

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It is weird that I seem to have a continuous consumption of 0.8 mAh. Could I have done anything wrong? I set the switches to DUT Select: DK, Power select: Reg. It is still connected to a nRF51DK from which I supply the USB power.

Now if I do the calculation of having 6V input from the batteries, the nRF is driven with 3.3V so I have a little less than double the capacity, e.g. ~4700 mAh @ 3.3V. Which average should I take, is it the RMS or the AVG? This is very important as they show very different results. So can I say that it will run about 1300 hours or is it more like 2300 hours?

Thank you

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