Re: urquattro killing battery??

[Bob <mx@snet.net>]

Fluhr wrote:
> 
> 
Funny.. my UrQ was the same way. If i didnt drive it once a week I had
to jump the battery every time!

> 
> Tony mentioned that 50mA of current draw when the car is off seems a bit high.
> Is there a general consensus about what is an acceptable level?  I know that
> the radio memory is taking about 40mA of that current, so I have it disconnected
> to see what happens.

50mA high??? For a 600A battery you can run 50mA for months! That isnt
bad.  
My UrQ nominally drew about 65mA, but the battery went dead. When I
finally got mad enough and thought that 65mA shouldnt kill the battery
(it shouldnt!) I put a data gathering unit on it... and let it sit.

The first two days were ALWAYS OK, drawing 65mA. After that though, it
mysteriously jumped up and down between 750mA and 65ma and once it hit
2A.  I thought it was the radio so I disconnected it, but it still did
it. It wasnt the radio.  Never really found what it was, so when it was
going to sit for a while, I just disconnected the battery.

Bob