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Default Lead acid battery charger (or alternator) switching to tricklewith load present?

On 7/11/19 4:24 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Wrong yet again. I've changed the battery twice.Â* It's consuming power overnight - presumably the alarm - I've actually measured up to 4 amps (randomly, sometimes it consumes nothing) coming off the battery with a meter when all the fuses are pulled.Â*
The alarm (to stop theives) cannot be disabled with a fuse.Â* To remove the alarm or replace it involves dismantling pretty much the entire front of the car.


After several false alarms at 3am, I took mine to the dealer and had them disable it. Might have been an hour labor charge.

Probably could have disconnected the battery and pulled the fuses and traced it out with a signal injector but that thought didn't really appeal to me so I threw some money at it.

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