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PCA10001 Power consumption

Good afternoon,

I'm trying to test PCA10001 eval board power consumption and consumption is about 4mA when it should be considerably lower. To proceed with this measurement I have first cut the SB8 soler bridge and I use an ampere-meter between pin 1 and 2 of P1. Furthermore, after flashing the board, I have switched it off and I have set SW4 to OFF position to switch off J-Link. I have tried with several demos (last one is 'ble_app_hrs') and I still have 4mA power consumption: I switch on board (I have tried with external battery and with USB) and I wait it to finish advertising time to go to system-off mode. In system-off I have these 4mA!!! Do you know which is the problem? Thanks!

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  • Furthermore, with module in System ON and going to sleep I get about 20uA power consumption: I guess this is the 16MHz power consumption, right? In system-on, is it possible to decrease power consumption? Because, if I'm working with S110 Softdevice, 16/32MHz crystal is required, right?

    Regards,

    Dani.

  • If you are not advertising or connected, or any peripheral is working and in the main loop you calling sd_app_evt_wait() then in this case it'll be system ON mode with RTC + 32kHz crystal running and current consumption only ION + IRTC + IX32k = 3-4uA.

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  • If you are not advertising or connected, or any peripheral is working and in the main loop you calling sd_app_evt_wait() then in this case it'll be system ON mode with RTC + 32kHz crystal running and current consumption only ION + IRTC + IX32k = 3-4uA.

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