BrockWI
Well-known member
Yes, my initial thought was some odd phantom load and I believe that is still in play. And yes I have checked it with a clamp on meter and found it is usually in the 50 ma range, but I have found it at 800 ma twice and power cycling the car would fix it. I am not going to check each time I power the car down to see if it really shut off and I have no faith any dealer or service tech is going to catch that or even if they did if they could fix it.
I do believe though that if the battery was properly charged it would carry it through the next power cycle or until the car was charged next. So it is a double whammy to the aux battery. My initial thought was to replace the aux battery with something larger, about twice the size, then an occasional 800 ma load wouldn't matter. But since I have been charging weekly I think that is carrying me through.
I do believe though that if the battery was properly charged it would carry it through the next power cycle or until the car was charged next. So it is a double whammy to the aux battery. My initial thought was to replace the aux battery with something larger, about twice the size, then an occasional 800 ma load wouldn't matter. But since I have been charging weekly I think that is carrying me through.