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Re: battery drain while parked - why?

   >    I returned from two weeks vacation to discover this morning that my battery
   >    was completely dead.  (Radio was off, doors closed).  This has happened
   >    before, in only five days time, when I was working on the car.  At the time
   >    I thought I must have left a door ajar and dismissed it.
   [...]
   > It's just a fact of life -- Audis do indeed eat car batteries.

   I agree. Had the entire system checked out as above when my 5kt ate one
   nine months after I bought it. Fine. As it was the next time one year
   later. Granted I do have a tri-amp audio system, but I don't run it 

Ah, mine's only bi-amped...maybe that's why I can sometimes get two
years on a battery . . .

I guess the cars can somehow glean the *potential* current drain, and
instantiate a virtual current sink to suck the virtual electrons right
out of the battery. Now that's innovative engineering -- I wonder if
they've patented the mechanism?

					-RDH