Posts on the Alpisto engineering blog filed under #reverse-engineering.
I spent eight hours per data point measuring a solar variometer through its own capacitor. Then I measured the same device directly with a USB tester and got a full consumption curve in twelve minutes — along with a 420 µA floor that belonged to the cable, not the device. What both methods agree on, where they don't, and how to read a WITRN tester from Linux.