XIAO ESP32C3 battery power

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Hooked it up to powerbank, through my USB power meter

it's hard to see, but it's reporting 0.45 watts power consumption. I programmed it to do a bit more wifi traffic, and this didn't really change.

I soldered a JST connector onto the solder pads on the back of the board labelled + and -. Unfortunately, my standard polarity meant the connector is over top of two of the pins.

I'm conforming to Sparkfun and Adafruit's standards for these connectors. I also put a blob of Weldbond on top of the pads, hoping I won't rip them off connecting and disconnecting the battery.

It didn't work off this battery alone. I plugged in USB power, and the battery charge LED which was flickering before is solid. After 5 minutes, it's now working off the battery alone. The battery must have been dead.

Charging, the USB power meter now shows 1.0 watts power consumption. I gifted some of these
https://www.amazon.ca/Soshine-6w-Performance-Monocrystalline-Cellphone
for Christmas a couple of years ago. I should borrow one!

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It's been running for an hour now, and the power meter says pretty much 100 mAh of energy consumed. So if this battery really holds 2000mAh, it will last 20 hours.

I should wash a decade of skin flakes out of my mouse pad.