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A p-channel MOSFET could be considered as described
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[here](https://github.com/peterhinch/micropython-micropower/blob/master/HARDWARE.md#hardware-issues).
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In use I measured 500μA in the periods when the display is refreshing (a total
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of 10s for each wakeup) and 58μA between wakeups. The Pyboard accounts for
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about 6μA. 33μA will be used by the 100KΩ pullup on the breakout's power enable
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line. I haven't attempted to figure out where the other 19μA is going.
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##### Measurements
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In use I measured 58μA between wakeups. The Pyboard accounts for about 6μA.
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33μA will be used by the 100KΩ pullup on the breakout's power enable line. I
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haven't attempted to figure out where the other 19μA is going.
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I measured power consumption for a hypothetical application which wakes once
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per hour, refreshes the screen, and goes back to sleep. In summary it uses
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0.74AH per year. This suggests it could run for ~3 years on a set of alkaline
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AA cells (capacity 2.5AH).
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Of the total, the 58μA sleep current accounts for 0.5AH, and the wakeup current
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0.24AH. Of the wakeup current, 28% is used for physical display refresh and a
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further 39% during SPI transfer to the display. The remaining 33% is used by
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boot (3%), initialisation of the device (2.8%), and initialisation of nano-gui
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(27%). This is based on study of the current waveform in conjunction with
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guessing what is going on in each phase of operation.
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The measurements used frozen bytecode on a Pyboard D SF6W. No SD card was
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fitted. Code was `epd29_lowpower.py` with the red LED code removed.
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The fact that nearly 70% of the energy is used in standby suggests
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improvements. If the EPD subsystem were turned off by a p-channel MOSFET,
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current consumption could be reduced to the 6μA figure of the Pyboard, an order
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of magnitude improvement.
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###### [Contents](./DRIVERS.md#contents)
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