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Re: any progress? some corrections
Posted by thereuare (more from thereuare) on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:21:27
In Reply to: Re: any progress? some corrections, JohnK, Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:05:19
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YOU SAY: "Next, hook up your drain test at the battery. Use the jumper to bleed current until delay relay shuts off and then remove jumper so all current runs through ammmeter. Re-verify that drain stops when fuse 28 is pulled. Now turn off the interior lights with the switch above the driver window. Retest, as above and if the drain is still there when fuse 28 is plugged in, the leak is either the clock or the radio circuit. If the current drain goes away when you turn off the lights, then I think that you have a bad time delay relay. Like a piece of dirt in the relay that conducts a little current, but not enough to light the bulbs."
I ASK: so when i do the test the first time i should leave the interior light on? then climb in thru an open window in order to shut it off (since opening a car door will re-set the timer delay and give me 1 minute of HIGH current). Also, when i tested earlier today, the current drain is removed when fuse #28 is pulled, but then after 10 seconds or so it JUMPS to about 140mA (prior to pulling it pulses systematically between 15mA and 80mA. When putting the fuse back in, i think the system resets itself again because the needle jumps to 250mA (i'm not able to wait and see what happens after a minute for fear of burning the meter's fuse... although i now have extras in case that happens). Also, given that Jim at Sobstory doesn't think that this is enough to drain the battery, along with the inability to keep the car's fuse removed and then replace it, do you have other advice to follow?
I could test with the interior light on, keep the fuse in, and then shut off the light thru an open window (or with an assistant inside the car)... would that tell me anything?
Maybe the 20 minute trip i take should just be to Summit :)
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Posts in this Thread:
- Found fuse with electrical short.... now what?, thereuare, Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:15:12
- Re: Update #3, thereuare, Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:50:01
- Re: Update #2, thereuare, Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:14:08
- Re: any progress? some corrections, JohnK, Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:05:19
- Re: MY Options...., thereuare, Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:27:18
- Possible wires for antenna is leaning on something...., Chaz, Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:02:28
- Re: Found fuse with electrical short.... now what?, JimBlake , Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:20:21
- Re: Found fuse with electrical short.... gud progress, JohnK, Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:03:16
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