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[christhegasman]

If you find anything shout up Can't find anything on mine but without the cetek It dies within a couple if weeks

[PHB1969]

How do you do a parasitic draw test.....? Cheers, Paul

[J4EY D]

If you find anything shout up
Can't find anything on mine but without the cetek
It dies within a couple if weeks

Will do, thanks for all the help so far

I'm 90% sure its the ecu relays/fuses as they're fairly new.

[J4EY D]

How do you do a parasitic draw test.....? Cheers, Paul

Pretty much as Chris said earlier in the thread, but this is the best video to show what to do

[PHB1969]

How do you do a parasitic draw test.....? Cheers, Paul

Pretty much as Chris said earlier in the thread, but this is the best video to show what to do

Thanks - completely missed that!

[J4EY D]

I just pulled the brown relay in the boot and the drain dropped to 0.01 Looks like the new wiring for the relay has a permanent 0v instead of a switched one (quoting Vocky), so only a 5 min job to fix (for Vocky ) Thank you everyone for your help getting this fixed Now if anyone has any battery problems near me I'll be happy to help

[vocky]

just a case of altering the permanent +12v feed for the brown relay to a switched +12v (from the grey relay feed)

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Have you been back for your old battery

[J4EY D]

Have you been back for your old battery

That one was well dead! AA bloke said it had 1.3v in it

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Have you been back for your old battery

That one was well dead! AA bloke said it had 1.3v in it

Your relay probably stole the other Vs

[simsy]

Well found! BTW Do parasistic current draw on the negative cable, its a bit safer. I.e. you can not weld your spanner to the aluminium chassis and short the battery, bursting the battery case and spraying you with acid, or just blowing a hole in the aluminium....etc.... when you undo the negatuive.....

[ghand]

Well found!

BTW

Do parasistic current draw on the negative cable, its a bit safer.

I.e. you can not weld your spanner to the aluminium chassis and short the battery, bursting the battery case and spraying you with acid, or just blowing a hole in the aluminium....etc.... when you undo the negatuive.....

I have seen the result of a guy testing a starter motor on a battery he just took of charge and was still gassing off .

The base of the battery and the four corner sections were still clearly visible the rest was spread all over the workshop

A battery can be a very dangerous bit of kit

Good advice

[J4EY D]

Yeah I didn it on the negative Didn't have the balls to play around with the positive

[Crazyfrog (Fab)]

Need to tell techie boy.........

[Wick]

0.36 amps is quite a lot
around 4 watts i think

Bugger, thought so

Its a pig to disconnect at the alternator.

0.36 amp is not a lot and may well be normal.It would take a long time to flatten a battery .

Maybe someone knows the normal current drain if any,or try a search for it ,I am not sure sorry.

Google (mostly american people) say a normal about is 0.050amps is normal, mine seems a lot more than that. I may be a moron though and be reading decimals wrong

Thats easy done so,

So 0.36 is way high if correct, Fancy missing " the fuses " back to the drawing board good luck .

Thats why i should never be trusted with important things... Dont tell Wick this though, i replaced his battery for him a few weeks ago


Im quietly confident its one of the ECU relays/fuses as it didnt do this before the webcon conversion. Just my luck to get a dodgy relay

And there is me sat here with a new battery in the VX but it's dead on the driveway!!!

This thread hurts my head after the vino consumed yesterday over Xmas, might have to wait til the weekend lol!

[christhegasman]

just a case of altering the permanent +12v feed for the brown relay to a switched +12v (from the grey relay feed)

so which relay is this and where is it or even is there on on an NA