nRF5232 consuming too much power with BLE advertising interval 2 secs.

RE: nRF5232 consuming too much power with BLE advertising interval 2 secs.

Stian Røed Hafskjold — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:28:02 GMT

Hi,

You need to provide information about your hardware setup. Is this a custom board or a development kit?

I would start with putting the chip to system OFF mode,

NRF_POWER->SYSTEMOFF = 1;

then you will know the base current. If there are any other components on the board that consume current, measurement error etc.

In general we do not support MbedOS. I do not know if it's power optimized or not. I would recommend using the nRF5 SDK, or nRF Connect SDK instead.

Start out with the ble_app_pwr_profiling application in the nRF5 SDK. You can flash the pre-compiled hex in the SDK directly, and measure current.

RE: nRF5232 consuming too much power with BLE advertising interval 2 secs.

AN Malik — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:52:23 GMT

I had measure through multi-meter placing it in series with connected battery

RE: nRF5232 consuming too much power with BLE advertising interval 2 secs.

awneil — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 23:58:37 GMT

[quote userid="97756" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/69770/nrf5232-consuming-too-much-power-with-ble-advertising-interval-2-secs"]I have noted current consumption is nearly 5mA[/quote]

How, exactly, have you measured that?