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Power Consumption issue

Hi all,

we are using nRF52810 and SDK 15.3.0

Project is based on central and peripheral concept

we are facing issue with the peripheral BLE power consumption.

In the attached peripheral code, Application timer is set for every 15 minutes and in timer interrupt we are sending 40 bytes payload to central BLE and  peripheral BLE to goes to System On sleep mode.

In System ON sleep mode peripheral BLE consumes around 600uA. 

we require power consumption during System ON sleep mode should be less than 10uA. 

Kindly give us suggestion to reduce the power consumption .

Thanks and regards

venu

  • I don't know if this applies to the nrf5 SDK but try and disable UART. In the boards I have tried with the nRFConnect SDK (Using Zephyr), 600uA is generally an indicator of that.

  • Correct , this current draw indicates that the UART isn't disabled properly. Please disable the UART peripheral before going to sleep in your application.

    Best regards,

  • HI Dears , Pls help to verify these files and advise changes tks Gaurav

  • Hi

    Please try uninitializing the UARTE by stopping RX/TX operations, calling the uninit function, and then power cycling the UART peripheral, please see the snippet below:

    What exactly is happening is explained in this post if you got any questions on this procedure.

    Best regards,

    Simon

  • Hi Simon,

    We are getting error while building the code. 

    It shows missing structure of “mst_uartConfig” at the time of build.

    please give us suggestion to resolve the error.

    kindly refer the attached image file for the error message.

    Thanks and Regards,

    venu

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