[DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss

[Pantdino]

Please excuse my ignorance if it isn't so, but he has to disconnect either the negative or positive terminal of the battery and put the multimeter on "Amps" mode.  Then he puts one of the multimeter leads on the terminal and the other on the now disconnected cable to measure current flow.

Correct?

Jim






-----Original Message-----
From: sean mundy <seanmundy at hotmail.com>
To: mikeldrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 2:34 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss



hanks Mike, sounds like a good info to start with.  Now I have to figure out 
ow to use a multimeter.


rom: MikeLDrew at aol.com
ate: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:11:58 -0500
ubject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss
o: seanmundy at hotmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com

n a message dated 1/3/11 14 04 9, seanmundy at hotmail.com writes:

Suggestions on how/where do I begin figuring out the exact cause?  Electric 
tuff scares me.

rightens me no end, too.  
Bill Taylor will be able to explain this much better than I do.  You can set 
our multimeter to register the power draw on the battery.  With a helper 
anning the multimeter, get inside the car and close the door (to extinguish the 
ome light).  With the key turned off, there should be zero current flowing, but 
robably, there will be, if you have an electrical 'leak'.  Now, one at a time, 
emove and replace each fuse.  Eventually, if you're lucky, you'll pull a fuse 
nd the leak will drop to zero.  You've now isolated the fuse that is 
ontributing to the problem.
Then, it's a matter of isolating the various circuits on that fuse to find the 
ulprit.
You may find that the pull-the-fuse trick doesn't work; that would then indicate 
hat the culprit is an unfused thing.  I vaguely recall hearing that the 
lternator can fritz out and cause such a draw?
Okay, we've rapidly reached the end of my knowledge on this topic!  Somebody 
lse, please weigh in with an actual, informed step-by-step procedure!
Mike                      
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