Very strange, I have the EC06 and TS21 and the parasitic drain was very low. I would have to check again, but it was nothing I needed to mention in each review
The TS21 is only radically high with the switch LED on high and must be the newer batch with the amber LED.
For the EC06 I measured 2500 µA with switch LED on high, and 120 µA with it OFF. Even 120 µA is high - this number should be 20-40 µA. If it's greater than 40 µA, there's some other source of leakage in the circuit and I'm only seeing this extra leakage in USB-C charging circuit designs, not that they all leak, but many of the new SOFIRN ones are.
With the switch LED on high at 2500 µA drain, it would take 200 days (12000/2.5 = 4800)) to drain fully charged cells.
With the switch LED OFF at 120 µA drain, it would take 11.5 years to drain fully charged cells (12000/0.120 = 100000 hours), but for one cell it's 3.8 years, and if the cell is already drained to 25% capacity, it's less than one year. So this doesn't sound like much drain, but it's still 3-4 times more than it should or could be, and there may be a simple fix for this. There's no reason for the charging circuit to be running anything that takes power.
Yes, the charging circuit is spec'ed this way so the measured 120 uA makes sense (20 uA for the driver circuitry, 100 uA for the charging circuitry) - not a deal breaker with 3 21700 cells, but good to know.
Astrolux needs to start implementing metal switches if the plan on staying in the higher end market. Acebeam (best switches), Manker, Fenix, and Imalent all know what is up. METAL SWITCHES SHOULD BE THE STANDARD, FIGHTEH ME.
Thanks Tom E for reporting about the high power consumption of the TS21 (Anduril 2 with powerbank, amber-orange switch LED) when the aux LED is set to "High".
I also tried to measure on my TS21 (my multi-meter with mA measurement is a sort of low-end multi-meter only, so may not be so accurate).
Anyway, sharing my measurements:
1) TS21 (Anduril 2, with powerbank function, amber-orange switch LED)
Anduril aux-LED state on:
'Off' = 0.11-0.13mA, shoots up to around 0.40mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
'Low' = 0.18-0.19mA, shoots up to around 0.45mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
'High' = 13.9mA, shoots up to around 14.2mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
2) TS21 (Anduril 1, no powerbank function, green switch LED)
Anduril aux-LED state on:
'Off' = 0.04mA, shoots up to around 0.31mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
'Low' = 0.10mA, shoots up to around 0.36mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
'High' = 3.1mA, shoots up to around 3.4mA (for less than 1 second) every 5-6 seconds
There's definitely a big difference in "High' state = almost 14mA (amber LED) while 3mA (green LED).
3mA seems to still be quite high, but a lot better than 14mA though..