Hello, I have a question about the Arduino's current usage. I want to play around with some sleep modes to save power from a Li-ion, single cell battery. Before I go sticking multimeter leads in places that I should not, where is the best place to measure current in the Arduino when connected USB? I…

How To Measure Current on Uno rev3

liuzengqiang April 27, 2014, 12:12am 6

I think the regular arduino board uses a linear regulator, which wastes the extra voltage so maybe sleeping with a switching regulator is a better choice?

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How To Measure Current on Uno rev3

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