I wonder if anyone can help concerning a strange current drain on my 1996 80 series?
Last weekend I woke all my neighbours up in the early morning when the alarm triggered on it's backup battery because the batteries had gone flat, and really FLAT, as in 650mV.
I recharged the batteries and re-connected, all appears OK except there is a 200mA drain with everything off.
I see on the forum that others only have 30mA drain when off so I think I have a problem.
Disconnected the Alarm, Radio, Electric Aerial and phone charger, everything that I have fitted, and I have 150mA drain.
Pulled ALL the fuses but this drain remains.
Seems unlikely that 200mA would flatten the batteries in the two days that I did not use the car and I can only assume that because I was driving for two days previously with headlights due to the bad weather I must have reduced the charge on the batteries and this drain was enough to flatten them in two days.
Batteries are 4 months old.
Got them tested once charged and both came up as good.
Alternator puts 14.5 Volts on them on tick over but drops to 14 volts with the lights on.
I am stumped now.
Anyone got any ideas?
Regards
Greg
Last weekend I woke all my neighbours up in the early morning when the alarm triggered on it's backup battery because the batteries had gone flat, and really FLAT, as in 650mV.
I recharged the batteries and re-connected, all appears OK except there is a 200mA drain with everything off.
I see on the forum that others only have 30mA drain when off so I think I have a problem.
Disconnected the Alarm, Radio, Electric Aerial and phone charger, everything that I have fitted, and I have 150mA drain.
Pulled ALL the fuses but this drain remains.
Seems unlikely that 200mA would flatten the batteries in the two days that I did not use the car and I can only assume that because I was driving for two days previously with headlights due to the bad weather I must have reduced the charge on the batteries and this drain was enough to flatten them in two days.
Batteries are 4 months old.
Got them tested once charged and both came up as good.
Alternator puts 14.5 Volts on them on tick over but drops to 14 volts with the lights on.
I am stumped now.
Anyone got any ideas?
Regards
Greg