[V8] battery drain?

Ed Kellock ed.kellock at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 15:25:36 PST 2011


The 1990 V8q always starts very weakly.  I put in a brand new group 49 that
was working great in another car and after a few weeks, the initial
crankover is very slow.  
 
I just did a battery drain check... baseline was .13 amps.  That's with the
multimeter set to 10A.  Until the courtesy light function timed out, it was
showing 2.16.  Then .13.  I went through every fuse in the box and #4
dropped it to .09.  Fuse #28 drops it to .04.  Both out drops it to zero.
 
Fuse 4 is the radio, speaker assembly (the rear speakers have been
completely removed), trip computer, cigarette lighter, reading lights,
vanity lights, trunk light, etc. quite a few little thingies.  Fuse 28 just
says instrument cluster processor.
 
Question #1: Is .13 too high a draw for being parked, locked, and dormant?
 
Thanks!
 
Ed
 
 


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