I was inspired to run outside and measure the leakage on my car.
It was 0.15 microamperes. That's less than a MILLIONTH of an Amp!
Like I mentioned before, there were lots of variations of those regulator
modules made by Lucas and others, and some may have a lot
more leakage than others. If I cared, I could look at the regulator
schematic in my Bentley book and try to estimate the circuit's leakage...
But I think 9mA is totally unnecessary and excessive.
While I was at it, I measured the current draw of lights:
Parking lights: 5.0 amps
Headlights and parking lights: 10.1 amps.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:48 AM 6/20/02 -0400, Douglas Frank wrote:
>Dave Massey wrote:
>>
>> > My questions to The Oracle are, what's the thin hot wire to the
>> > alternator for? What should I do about this alternator?
>>
>> A 9 mA draw is typical (I measured the same on my 74 TR6 at one time) and
>> results in a 1.5 A-H discharge over a week.
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