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Turn Signal relay drains the battery Posted by Gary Stottler [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Re: Drained Battery?, boot_sequence ![]() |
For years the battery would drain on my Turbo if I let it sit for more than a week or two without hooking up the Battery Tender. When I got the EMS, it had no turn signal flasher, so I "borrowed" the one from the Turbo and noticed that the green light on the dash glowed dimly all the time when the car was off. I took the flasher back to the Turbo, and same thing. I bought 2 new flashers from Chip (West of Sweden) and now both cars work fine, no glowing bulb, no draining battery problems.
All that said, I highly recommend the Batter Tender (I actually use the Battery Tender Junior) for any car that will be sitting around. If you keep the tender on it ($30 bucks max) the battery should easily last 10 years or more, so seems like a cheap tradeoff (although I have not thrown the Tender on the Kill-a-Watt and measured how much $ of electricity it would use in 10 years).
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_______________________________________ Gary Stottler
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