Power Consmuption issue in nrf51 during advertising packets

[Brajesh]

Hi All,

My goal is to advertise the generic packets untill a GPIO interrupt occurs. So in order to achieve low power consumption I have increased the time interval of those packets being advertised from 40ms to 3 seconds. While scanning i am able to see the packets in every 3 sec, but as intended i don't see any reduction in power consumption. With both the intervals, it consumes same 10mA. Am i missing something on this, please suggest.

Any suggestion would be well appreciated.

Thanks

[Hung Bui]

@If you have other peripheral runing such as crystal, timer you would need to add them to the total power consumption. How accuracy is your power supply current measurement ?

Regarding the 30uA current consumption, have you made sure there is no other peripheral running on the board, and on the chip, except for the timer ? What do you do when at the advertising time out ?

2-3mA when in connection is still pretty high, which connection interval did you use ?