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CatTrack 3.0 Low Power Radio Receive (and a swollen LiPo battery fixed in software)

The issue 2 boards are here, I’ve soldered them up and tested them and the good news is that they match the performance I managed to prototype with the issue 1 boards (thereby rendering all the effort I put into making the supplies easy to isolate pointless, ah well!):

Sleep mode current (10.00 seconds): 0.00147 mA
Active mode current (0.060 seconds): 8.97500 mA

This equates to an average current consumption of 0.0559mA, or 55.9uA. This means that a 200mAh battery will last (hopefully!) around 4.9 months.

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