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NRF52832 UART Power consumption

Hi,

I just wanna start off by saying I know there a lot of similar posts to this one here on the dev zone, but my problem with them is that none of them (from what I've seen) give a good answer what to do in order to reduce the power consumption of the UART peripheral when it's active.

My observation is that as soon as I activate the UART (data is constantly sent when activating the UART) the current consumption averages around 2.4mA. I need to be able to reduce this as much as possible.

One of the topics I found was this one:
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/28439/gpio-and-uart-with-low-power-consumption

however the solutions presented in that topic only reduces current consumption when the UART is idle.

Another topic that is similar to mine, but not answered:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../how-to-configure-uart-with-low-power

Furthermore, I found the low power examples for nRF51:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/nrf51-UART-examples/tree/master/ble_app_uart_low_power

Are these valid for nRF52 as well? or are there some equivalent examples for nRF52?

SDK: v15.0

HW: nRF52832 PCA10040

Br,
Anton

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