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)

[Carrera916]

It should be drawing no more than 3 mA with only the clock running with everthing off....15 mA is alot...I have the same problem on my Audi and haven't found the damn culprit....

Radio with it's own clock will drawn current on top of VDO clock....anything that is left on with the ignition key off will draw current....that's something you've go to trace it....the red wires that you mentioned...find out what's that for and see if it's being left on....if so, bingo that's the bug you want to stomp on....

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