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Excess Current Consumption Running B-L072Z-LRWAN1 From Battery??

Andrew Neil
Evangelist III
Posted on December 11, 2017 at 20:21

I have removed all the solder bridges & links to minimise stray consumption.

When I measure the combined current through JP3 and JP1 (ie, MCU & RF), it is ~0.87mA between Tx pulses.

0690X00000609BHQAY.png

(SB19,14,17 are removed; JP2 is not fitted - so no current to USB_LRA)

But, when I power the board from the battery, and measure the battery current, I see

1.95mA

0690X00000609BMQAY.png

(SB18 is removed)

The ST LD39050 regulator (U7) is supposed to be ''low quiescent current'': the datasheet says it should only, typically, be taking 100uA at 500mA load - so we should be nowhere near that!

So where is this extra milliamp going??

EDIT

To clarify: the ~0.87mA to MCU & RF is measured while powered from the battery.

#current-consumption #b-l072z-lrwan1 #low-power #current

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Posted on March 06, 2018 at 17:05

No - no news from ST, I'm afraid.

Posted on March 07, 2018 at 06:44

Hey Andrew, try to remove D2! It's a link between battery and ST_link power with resistors 2k7 and 4k7...

Posted on March 07, 2018 at 13:39

You mean this:

0690X00000609mAQAQ.png

EDIT

So what we actually have is this:

Which would seem like a strong suspect - well spotted!

I'll have to try it ...

Posted on March 07, 2018 at 15:56

Hey Andrew,

I can't see your second image. But I can confirm you that if you remove D2, consumption from battery is in my case 20uA when I am in Stop mode (no other source of power connected) (18uA + current consumption MCU + Radio Stop mode)

I have :

- remove SB18  (led)

- remove D2 and add JP4 link (now STLink is powered via USB directly, and not from the '5V' source, connected to battery by D5)

- remove R26 as you mentionned

I also remove D4 D6 D7.. no need in my case.

you also need to remove SB37 after programming with STLink... if you want program again with STLink, you need SB37. But Software doesn't run on battery with SB37 (with battery and USB okay, but not only battery).

Regards!

Jacques

Posted on March 07, 2018 at 16:15

Jacques Grandjean wrote:

I can't see your second image.

Is this better:

0690X0000060A05QAE.png

But I can confirm you that if you remove D2, consumption from battery is in my case 20uA when I am in Stop mode (no other source of power connected) (18uA + current consumption MCU + Radio Stop mode)

Excellent.

- remove R26 as you mentionned

The undocumented feed from +3V3 to AIN_1 on the STLink

:(

you also need to remove SB37

Yes - that's the RESET from the STLink.

It seems that theB-L072Z-LRWAN1 is an example in how

not

to do a low-power design.

:(

Posted on March 07, 2018 at 17:26

I could see the second image earlier, but now google is blocking it.

Good catch of the current path there.

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NHend.7
Associate II

HI Guys, I know this thread is old now.

I was wondering if I hook up Li battery will LD39050PUR33 voltage remain fix in the data sheet Vin =Vout+1V

can some clarify if the Vout will remain constant for Vin=3.4 to Vin =2.9?

Andrew Neil
Evangelist III

Having made all these mods to get minimum power, here's a post on how to reconnect the ST-Link for programming & debug:

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00001XvfJtSAJ/restore-stlink-connection-on-bl072zlrwan1