[DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss
Pantdino
pantdino at aol.com
Mon Jan 3 17:58:56 EST 2011
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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