Lets see:
Assuming a battery rated around 50 ampere hours, and that the car could
still start at 25% charge (not unreasonable). This leaves us a useable
charge of 37.5 AH (ampere hours). At 28mA discharge rate, it would take
(37.5 / .028) hours, or 1339.285714286 hours to discharge to the
useable cutoff charge. This is 55.80357142857 days without use.
I don't see this as an unreasonable discharge rate although it might be
a just a little high.
Any comments?
Chuck Schaefer
Don Mathis wrote:
>
> When I place an ammeter between the negative post on my battery and the
> battery wire, I read 28 ma with nothing turned on. We traced everything and
> it may just be a bad batery. Anyone else ever see this? Thanks-
>
> Cheers
>
> Don Mathis,Ph.D.
> donmathis@lucent.com
> '61 MGA
> '37 Derby Bentley (B190KT)
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