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Re: How much should a battery drain?
« on: Dec 21, 2004, 05:06:46 PM »
Ahhhh, I think I am finally on the real trail. Things really started happening once I realized the .5 amp fuse in my multimeter was blown. After blowing 3 or 4 of the little buggers I realized that you cannot test more than a 10 amp circuit on anything other than the 20 amp multimeter setting, and that I need to take my time and make sure I am moving the red probe to the 20 amp socket on the multimeter, not the black one. Soooo, testing all the fuses for current, the only two I found that were drawing current were the two headlight fuses in the engine compartment. I have not really gotten a chance to go much deeper than that, but I did pull the headlight relay and still registered a drain, as well as pulling the fuses showed. I might be able to get into it a little more tonight.

Lesson for the day: SOME functions will still work on your multimeter even with the 1/2 amp fuse blown!

 
 
 
 
 

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