[V8] Battery Drain

[Grant Lenahan]

Not an external drain, but all batteries have finite internal 
resistance.
Several months is a long time.

Grant
On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Kneale Brownson wrote:

> I've had a brand new battery in my new-to-me 200q20v for several 
> months.
> Worked perfectly for me when I ran the car long enough to drive it 
> onto the
> hoist the barn when I bought it.  It's been sitting on the hoist ever 
> since
> with the negative cable disconnected while I did the clutch 
> replacement and
> worked on some other things like an axle boot and relay harness for the
> Euro lights I'm now installing.  Hooked the cable back up to test the
> harness and there's no power.  Battery is dead.  Should a new battery 
> go
> dead sitting like that?  There can't be any drain with the negative 
> cable
> disconnected can there?
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