This post will focus on “current leaks”, the points of power consumption that are often designed into a device without much thought. In some cases they are things you have some amount of control over, in other cases they are things you have little control over but have to account for in your power budget in order to get an accurate power consumption or battery life estimate. While technically not leaks as in leakage current, I call them leaks because they are where your battery life drains away.
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