Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Simple tips and tricks to increase battery runtime by correctly measuring currents. This video also shows power consumption of ESP32 board in different modes (deep sleep, WiFi, normal). Thank you very much Andrea Longobardi

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Chapters:
00:00 The problem
00:31 Power profiler
05:32 Setup
09:03 Typical IoT application
10:40 Calculating without measurements
16:52 Measuring current: LED
17:48 ESP32 current and power consumption for 160MHz vs 80MHz
19:46 ESP32 current and power consumption in deep sleep mode
21:48 ESP32 current and power consumption when using WiFi
33:34 Real life application measurements
35:36 Battery life time calculation for a real life application with LDO
41:16 Battery life time calculation for a real life application with BUCK/BOOST
46:37 Using a GPIO to help with measurements
49:42 Using coulombs for calculation
53:44 Optimizing software to reduce power consumption
57:46 About Andrea does


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