Hi All, I just wanted to check whether I should expect current draws of around 30mA whenever using Serial.begin(115200); I have a barebones arduino setup on a breadboard that I can sleep down to 0.7mA when using a very basic sleep sketch. As soon as I add in Serial.begin I am seeing this jump up to…

Serial.begin and current draw

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