POWER_SWITCH pin HIGH during deep sleep in circuitpython CPB Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[gus7av]

Hi All

Is it possible to turn of the power to the sensors during deep sleep by keeping the POWER_SWITCH pin HIGH?
It's seems like the board is using less power while running normally with no power to the sensors, than during deep sleep, which makes deep sleep a bit useless on the CPB. I would be amazing to get the deep sleep current even lower!

Gustav

[mikeysklar]

Gustav,

Pin D35 is the control pin to turn off most of the sensors and LEDs. I believe just the accelerometer will still be active.

D35 - Sensor + NeoPixel power pin, default is pulled LOW (to enable power to sensors and NeoPixel). Set to output and HIGH to turn off power to NeoPixels and light/thermistor/microphone. Accelerometer does not get turned off (so you can do shake-to-wake). Speaker shutdown pin is different as well

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-cir ... -3039295-9

The deep sleep on the nRF52 CPX Bluefruit offers a limited power savings on it’s own, but you can try our suggested code for spacing out the advertisements which reduces BLE power consumption. That is about it in terms of power savings options.

https://learn.adafruit.com/deep-sleep-w ... 3097743-16

[adafruit2]

we got pretty low power with code something like this

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#include <Adafruit_SleepyDog.h>
#include <Adafruit_LIS3DH.h>

Adafruit_LIS3DH lis = Adafruit_LIS3DH(&Wire);
#define PWR_PIN 35
#define SPK_EN  11

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  //while (!Serial);

  // turn off neopixels and sensors
  pinMode(PWR_PIN, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(PWR_PIN, HIGH);

  // turn off speaker amp
  pinMode(SPK_EN, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(SPK_EN, LOW);
}

void loop() {
  //return;
  Watchdog.sleep(100);
  delay(100);
  digitalWrite(PWR_PIN, LOW);
  delay(10);
  digitalWrite(PWR_PIN, HIGH);
}