Asset Tracker Data vs Power Consumption Discussion

[ninjatill]

@ir_fuel, although the OP makes a pretty good post, you may want to check out these threads with more info about power and data savings:

GitHub - rickkas7/electron-power-data-usage: Choosing sleep modes for the...

Electron SLEEP_MODE_DEEP tips and examples

It’s a little confusing getting an Electron to go into deep sleep, using the 130 µA that it should. These six annotated code examples should hopefully clear things up. All tests were run on 0.6.0 on a Electron G350. AUTOMATIC, no system thread #include "Particle.h" void setup() { } void loop() { // Results in 133 uA power consumption // Modem is turned off, full cellular resync after restart (blinking green, blinking cyan, fast blinking cyan), 5-6K of data usage System.sleep(SLEEP_MODE_DE…