I experienced similar problems. Then someone pointed out that a unit with a remote is always looking and waiting for a command. So removing the face is needed to minimize draw. Here are the draws I measured. "off" is about half of "on" but "no face plate" is about 1/15th of "off": http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/Panasonic.txt Richard
On 7/1/2014 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 19:24:54 -0700 > From: Alistair Bell<albell@SHAW.CA> > Subject: Re: Electrical draw question > > Hi, > > I have my radio wired to the aux battery so I don't have to worry about draw= > on the starting battery. But I was surprised to find out how much it draws t= > urned off. With face plate on, it measured something around 130 mA. With fac= > eplate off it was 30 mA. > > I have a dinky little 30 Ahr aux battery ( big assed battery awaiting instal= > l) so I pull the face plate when I park the van. Maybe silly, but I hate tha= > t constant draw on the battery when I am not there. > > Alistair > > > >> >On Jun 30, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Eric Caron<ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> wrote: >> >=20 >> >Hi Listers, >> >=20 >> >=20 >> > I may have incorrectly hooked up my new radio. I lik= > e it to always have power even with the ignition off. . But I'm told this w= > ill draw 67 mili amps. With just the memory power on it draws 6 mili amps. >> >=20 >> > My van sits often for 2 weeks without being started. Is this going= > to quickly draw down my battery?=20 >> >=20 >> >Eric Caron=20 >> >85 GL Auto Westfalia=20 > ------------------------------ |
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