Date:         Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:59:33 -0800
Reply-To:     PB <pbrattan@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         PB <pbrattan@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Something is draining my battery...
Comments: To: Billy Hirt <zbillman@comcast.net>
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I just got done with this problem.  My battery drained twice in equal
periods of 10 days.  I managed to contact the P.O. who told me about the
stereo kill-switch.  I got the van in April, 2007, and had not been told
about it.  The stereo can run with the motor turned off, so I guess they had
to put in the kill switch to keep it from draining the battery.  Why they
didn't install it to the aux battery, I don't know!  The stereo still keeps
its settings with the kill-switch turned off.
Patti
90 Westy Automatic
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On 6/13/07, Billy Hirt <zbillman@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
> I just had a very similar situation.  I installed a new cd deck and over
> the
> span of 4 days the battery was drained.  I did exactly what Joe suggested
> you do.  The problem was not in my radios memory drawing to many amps but
> in
> the switched power wire.  While I had my head under the dash I kept
> hearing
> a noise like a cd was trying to load or eject.  Even though there was no
> cd
> inserted.  When the radio was installed both the memory and the power wire
> had been tied together to a direct hot.  Like a VW, you can listen to the
> radio without the key in.  I simply put the switched (not the memory wire)
> to a switched circuit.  I have also seen people add a toggle switch.  Hope
> this helps.
> Billy Hirt
>
> On 6/13/07, Todd Last <rubatoguy@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to track what is draining my battery.. My stereo does take
> some
> > current to keep its memory alive, can anyone tell me what a reasonable
> limit
> > to any current drain would be for a radio?
> >
> > If I don't drive it, the van battery will die within a weekend.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Todd
> > '88 Westy
> >
>