- 1. Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: drsnydr@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:04:36 +0000
- Are there any "usual suspects" for a battery drain (2+ days will kill it)? Any tricks or shortcuts for finding the problem? Thanks
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00207.html (6,658 bytes)
- 2. Re: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:52:56 -0400
- == You didn't specify the year of your car, but I once dealt with a Mk3 Spitfire (w/generator) whose voltage regulator contacts had stuck together, creating a drain on the battery. A new regulator cu
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00208.html (7,053 bytes)
- 3. Re: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: public@sweavo.34sp.com
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:58:16 +0100
- Quoting drsnydr@comcast.net: 2+ days of doing what? Nothing at all? if driving it then I would immediately suspect failing to charge. Newer models, check alternator, older, the control box. If older
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00209.html (6,996 bytes)
- 4. Re: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: Marv Coulthard <coulthard@saltspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:07:30 -0700
- Lots of suspects... switch left on .. or partially on... (corrosion) (door light switches are good at this trick.) Remove the ground from the battery to chassis. connect a lamp in series with the bat
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00211.html (7,341 bytes)
- 5. Re: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: public@sweavo.34sp.com
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:34:42 +0100
- Quoting ZoboHerald@aol.com: You're talking control box here, right? IIRC there are two 'regulators' on the dynamo/generator spits: the big one (control box) that charges the battery, and disappears w
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00213.html (7,238 bytes)
- 6. Re: Battery drain (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:18:07 -0400
- == Don't we all have that problem? Yes, I was referring to the voltage regulator (what the British call the control box), the Lucas RB106 or whatever model it is, to regulate the output of the genera
- /html/spitfires/2004-05/msg00218.html (7,658 bytes)
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