[DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss

[sean mundy]

Sounds easy. Thanks Doug!!
 
> From: doug351c at gmail.com
> To: seanmundy at hotmail.com; mikeldrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:55:32 -0800
> 
> Sean,
> 
> Set your multimeter to its current reading mode and start out using it's
> highest Amps scale or you may blow its internal current fuse. Disconnect
> the negative battery cable and connect your multimeter's leads between the
> just removed negative battery cable and the battery's negative terminal.
> Then get into the car with the door closed (as Mike suggests) and pull the
> fuses one by one.
> 
> Doug Braun
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of sean mundy
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 2:35 PM
> To: mikeldrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Mike, sounds like a good info to start with. Now I have to figure
> out how to use a multimeter.
> 
> 
> 
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:11:58 -0500
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Power Loss
> To: seanmundy at hotmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> 
> 
> In 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
> stuff scares me.
> 
> 
> Frightens me no end, too.
> 
> Bill Taylor will be able to explain this much better than I do. You can set
> your multimeter to register the power draw on the battery. With a helper
> manning the multimeter, get inside the car and close the door (to extinguish
> the dome light). With the key turned off, there should be zero current
> flowing, but probably, there will be, if you have an electrical 'leak'.
> Now, one at a time, remove and replace each fuse. Eventually, if you're
> lucky, you'll pull a fuse and the leak will drop to zero. You've now
> isolated the fuse that is contributing to the problem.
> 
> Then, it's a matter of isolating the various circuits on that fuse to find
> the culprit.
> 
> You may find that the pull-the-fuse trick doesn't work; that would then
> indicate that the culprit is an unfused thing. I vaguely recall hearing
> that the alternator can fritz out and cause such a draw?
> 
> Okay, we've rapidly reached the end of my knowledge on this topic! Somebody
> else, please weigh in with an actual, informed step-by-step procedure!
> 
> Mike
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