Battery Drain

[sinkrun]

My manche is draining my the battery anyone know any known culprits?? I have not messed with anything in the wiring in the last year.

[Pete M]

do you have a multimeter that reads amperage?

[sinkrun]

Not here at the house now will have it tuesday.

[Pete M]

You can use it inline at the battery and then have someone pull fuses one at a time until the draw goes away. that'll narrow it down a bunch. :D

[lostissues]

be careful with that, a lot of multimeter's will have an internal fuse and could blow that if you hook it up in line.

 

if you want to look up how to test it do a search for "parasitic drain test"

[Pete M]

the only meter I'm familiar with has a 10 amp ammeter. that's one heck of a draw to blow that fuse.

[HOrnbrod]

Pete's correct, it's very seldom (like never) to have a 10A draw w. the key out, doors shut, and all devices off. I usually pull all the fuses, hook up the multimeter in series w. the neg battery cable and ground, then stick the fuses back in one by one until you see a draw. Usually it's no more than 500 ma. Last Jeep I had drawing the battery down overnight was caused by an internal short in the radio - it was shorting out the radio memory voltage. :eek:

[sinkrun]

Thanks for the ideas I will see what I can find tuesday and post back.

[sinkrun]

Glove box light the latch was loose and out of place (again) so the light was staying on.

[Pete M]

glad to hear it was something simple. :thumbsup: