Battery Drain, Anyone measured the amp draw? Options

[Kerrys914]

I have a slow battery drain on my '74. Has anyone measured the amp draw on their teener? I am wondering if a stock FI car would/should have any amp draw?

I have a new battery and it seems to be going dead on me, 3-4 days of no use.

My dam craftsman multimeter is junk.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) I set it to read amps and the dam thing keeps climing till it maxes out. I can't measure a thing with it. I am going to buy a new one tonight and try to find the drain with it. Should I expect 0.0 for a reading?

One of the 4 red wires, which connects to the + , gets a nice spark when I reconnect it to the terminal. That tells me I have a nice draw on that circuit, correct?

Thanks
Kerry

Tyring to get ready for my first big road trip...8/8/04 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

[bondo]

Doh. Fluke is the brand everyone likes.. about $100 for a basic one. Not sure what the auto-reset thing is called, but it's not really a fuse or a circuit breaker. It's some sort of device that has a low resistance at currents up to it's rating, and if you go above that it very quickly goes to a very high resistance to limit the current. Once the overload is removed it pretty quickly goes back to normal. I think most meters that have this feature will also beep at you to alert you to the overload. Hopefully someone who knows what the device is called will chime in so you can make sure your next meter has one.