Battery Draw Amperage

[Bernie Benz]

The Q is: Can you in the trunk, outlast the battery and all die  
together?


On Jun 19, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> Is the glove box light on the same circuit? How about the under  
> hood light? I forget off hand. On one of my past 200s, just moving  
> the trunk wires around cured the problem.
>
> Bob's method is MUCH safer than hoping your partner will actually  
> open the trunk after you climb in and close it :-)
>
> mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rbade12 at aol.com
> To: auditony at gmail.com ; sextondm at gmail.com
> Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 6:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Battery Draw Amperage
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>  Agree with Tony. #4 is the trunk light, vanity mirror lights, etc.  
> Take your digital camera, turn the flash off, put it on timer,  
> throw it in the trunk pointed at the light, close the lid and see  
> if you get a picture. I had the same issue years ago and it was the  
> trunk light.
>
> Bob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hoffman <auditony at gmail.com>
> To: David Sexton <sextondm at gmail.com>
> Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Sent: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 5:52 pm
> Subject: Re: Battery Draw Amperage
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> As Dewitt said, that is too much, as it is about a small light bulb
>
> draw. That is the perfiect amount (.2a, or 200ma) to drain the battery
>
> in 4-5 days. Whatever is on that #4 fuse is right where I'd be
>
> looking. And, yes, it is charging just fine.
>
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> Tony
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> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:36 PM, David Sexton <sextondm at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
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>> Hello all;
>
>> The other day I was checking for a battery draw on the Avant, and  
>> I had my
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>> multimeter between the negative terminal and negative cable and  
>> was watching
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>> the amperage draw on the battery as I pulled each fuse out of the  
>> fuse
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>> block, one at a time.
>
>> With everything in place, doors closed, lights out, at rest, there  
>> is a .2
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>> amp draw on the battery.  Is that too much?  Would that be enough  
>> to be
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>> draining my battery in about 4-5 days?
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>> The battery in my car is only a matter of months old, and is the  
>> second one
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>> I've put in the car.  It is the correct European type battery from
>
>> Carquest.
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>> I've checked voltage at the battery with the car running, 13.85v.   
>> I've also
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>> checked it at the alternator and it's about 14.00-14.5v.  It  
>> appears to me
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>> Any ideas?  Is the .2A draw too much?
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>> When pulling fuses, the only two fuses that made a difference were  
>> the #4
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>> fuse (dropped the draw from .2A to .04A), and the #19 fuse  
>> (dropped from .2A
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>> to .178A).
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>> Thanks,
>
>>
>
>> Dave Sexton
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