Battery drains faster when Argon sleeping

[Fragma]

There are a few other posts about this, it's a known bug. Here's a potential workaround:

Sleep[STOP] is intermittently missed and millis() wrong with Argon

Correction @Fragma, I have noticed this high power consumption!! When driving the Argon with a bench top power supply (which shows the current) it was indeed running at 80 mA once the first Particle.connect was established and after the Argon had gone to sleep. In my case it was rectified by adding the following lines prior to the sleep command, thus ensuring that the Argon was actually shut down. Particle.disconnect(); waitUntil(Particle.disconnected); WiFi.off(); …