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Matt Interesting real data with a coulomb counter. Great stuff.
My current measurements on 0.28.01 for sleep are 2.5mA . I haven’t got a test setup for other modes at this point, but probably will have in the next couple of weeks.
For my current measurements I run it only from the battery and put a Adafruit INA219 in series, with a simple driver polling once a second, running on a separate Mayfly and then visually monitor current.
I’ve put together a spreadsheet for how power is used. I tend to calculate in mAseconds and then of course 3600mAseconds = 1mAhr.
Since I’m also wanting to tweak production code, I need debugging. I modified the FTDI cable so that only the processor Tx and the Gnd are connected, and debug output will advertise what state the processor is in. For an FTDI connector – male to male pins and just snip all pins except critical ones.
So from the spread sheet, for sampling period 900sec, using Readings 6.5mA@10secs, LTE 35mA@50secs,
Then for 24 hrs, 96*15minutes
sleep at 6mAs the calculation is 182mAHrs close to yours
sleep at 2.5mA then 104mAhrs
sleep at 0.5mA 59.6mAhrs ~ (I want it!)