Easier way is to turn everything off and disconnect one of the
battery cables. Do this in a darkened and quiet space. Touch the
battery cable to the battery post and look and listen for a spark. If
you get even a faint one, something o=is drawing current. Suspictious
items sometimes overlooked are starters, voltage regulators.
Dinconnect things one at a time to fine the culprit.
Gerard
At 11:21 AM -0400 7/15/03, DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>My battery keeps running down. The battery is just over 2 years old, so
>maybe it is the battery itself, but where would I hook the
>multimeter to determine
>whether there was a short somewhere? I was thinking that If I disconnect the
>battery cables and hook the multimeter, set on the resistance setting to the
>positive battery cable and the negative side of the fuses (with fuses removed)
>and I get a reading of "1" or full resistance, then there would be no short
>anywhere. But if it was less than "1" then that would indicate a short and
>then I would have to begin looking for it. Does this make sense? Or is there
>elsewhere the contacts should be clipped to give me that information?
>
>--David C.
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