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<DIV><FONT size=2>I can't really see that, even if you had installed a 'modern'
computer in your V8. Radios with a memory will put a drain on the battery,
but it shouldn't be a problem after just 'a few days'. Even modern cars
shouldn't do that for two or three weeks at worst. I had to put a cut-off
switch in my V8 as the alarm was draining the battery in couple of weeks,
since when it has been fine. The radio in that keeps its stations, and
I've run a bypass feed direct to the clock. I also had to put one on my
'modern' as it's hardly used in summer and wouldn't start the engine after a
couple of weeks. That loses its stations so put a bypass for that and the
clock which conveniently are on the same fuse, but it still fails after several
weeks of not being used.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Checking for a drain isn't difficult even if finding the cause
is time-consuming. Remove the battery earth strap and connect a VOLTmeter
in its place. If you have a dynamo there shouldn't be anything shown on
the meter. With an alternator there is usually a microscopic drain from
the diodes, which shows up as a few volts on an analogue meter and 12v on a
typical digital. If you see 12v on a typical analogue you do have a
drain. Unplug the alternator and if that drops to zero on an analogue then
the alternator diodes are suspect, a digital is too sensitive to tell the
difference directly but you could measure the current.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>If you still see 12v on either then disconnect any alarm or
'in car entertainment', then the purple circuit fuse, hazard flasher fuse, brown
wires from ignition switch, lighting switch, fusebox, relays and
solenoid until it drops to zero. The thing that caused it to drop
needs further investigation, of course.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>PaulH.</FONT></DIV>
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</B></DIV><FONT size=-1><FONT face=Arial>Then radio man <I>thought </I>that
modern radios had facilities that connected them to "modern" car computers and
thus the drain as the radio would keep "on" and chatting even when it was
turned off. ...</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>