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Help with battery drain diagnosis....
Posted by Chris M (more from Chris M) on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:46:24
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Hello all. My 93 Aero has a battery drain. If the car sits without starting for about 3 days or more, then the battery dies. Battery is about 3 years old if I recall. I did a search on the board and read the posts about hooking up an amp meter to the battery, but I think I am doing it wrong.
I set my multimeter to amps, then connect one lead to the negative post, and the other to the negative cable, then carefully remove the cable from the post, with the car off and the key off. I get a reading of 000. What am I doing wrong here? Shouldn't I get at least a slight reading from the radio memory and other small stuff?
The EDU volt meter reads 13 or so when the car is running, although I don't know how much I trust that thing. I was going to start pulling relays behind the glove box with the amp meter hooked up, but if I am getting 0, then I don't think I have it hooked up correctly.
Can someone straighten me out on this? TIA,
Chris
93 9k Aero
111k mi
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Posts in this Thread:
- Help with battery drain diagnosis...., Chris M, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:46:24 <-- Viewing This Message
- new device available to help stop dead batteries!!!, gavin, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:56:29
- Re: Help with battery drain diagnosis...., Ari
, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:26:14- Thanks Ari, Chris, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:20:26
- Optima = excellent battery, John Fitzgerald
, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:18:02 - Ain't clairvoyance, Ari , Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:47:56
- meter damage, MrBubble, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:00
- I see, Chris M, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:48:12
- I see...., Chris M, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:43:45
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