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by numpad0 1274 days ago
1.5A. Peak consumption of an ESP32 is around 1.5A. I once had to add a supercap from junk bin to Vcc to stop it from bootlooping.
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That doesn't sound right... it would be ~5W, WiFi is supposed to max out at 100mW (so even at 10% efficiency it would be still just a watt)