Thank you for the help. That actually was a problem about a month ago in early development but I sorted that out. This morning I found the problem/answer...the board I am using has a CP2102 UART and my laptop was setup to allow the COM port to sleep which it did when the MCU went to sleep, thus givi...

I have a simple NODEMCU I want to setup at a remote location and be powered by batteries. I have it working 100% and deep sleeping just fine when it is connected to my laptop USB port, I am using an inline USB current monitor (FNB48S) and in deep sleep it's about 500uA, when I power it from a USB bl...