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Battery Drain...

Phil21185
Phil21185
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I'm shocked to see that no one mentioned the ALTERNATOR.  IF windings are shorted internally (e.g. field windings), that can drain the battery while-you-sleep.  I bought a minivan for CHEAP [with that problem] as the alternator can draw enough current to leave you stranded; dome lights, glove box lights really can't drain a good battery as quickly as an internally shorted alternator can 😉

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      Thanks for the reply.  Yeah, I understand the scopes of multimeters, but mine (a cheapy) jumps from 10A (which still displays 2dp), to 200ma but through the alternate positive port for the probe which

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      Executable code and static data (look-up tables or maps) would be stored in ROM and working data in RAM. I imagine the ROM, or at least some of it, is flash memory since it can be reprogrammed via the

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      not that it matters but that's the wrong setting, you want it 1A or 100mA setting 10A means the highest reading will be 10A, a value of 1 on this setting will be 1A your 0.01 is 10mA 1A will

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