I just got back from a 1 week vacation and my battery ('93 850 GLT 70amphour battery) was completely drained. It is less than 3 years old. After checking the pull on all the fuses, I discovered that I have a 0.13 Amp drain on fuse #15. Is that Exessive? According to my calculations, it should take 3 weeks to drain the battery at this rate.
Anyone have any insight?
Thanks,
Scott
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Battery Drain
Started by buessle, Mar 18 2006 07:39 PM
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 11:19 PM
glove box light. the button in the corner isn't getting depressed since the door latch is in the middle and the door bows out. i just taped some paper in the corner to take up the space. i'd like to removed the bulb but i didn't spend too much time trying to get the glove box out.
oh yeah, my amp drain was also 0.13. with the light off, it's 0.03
oh yeah, my amp drain was also 0.13. with the light off, it's 0.03
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 05:20 PM
QUOTE(julian @ Mar 18 2006, 11:19 PM) 
glove box light. the button in the corner isn't getting depressed since the door latch is in the middle and the door bows out. i just taped some paper in the corner to take up the space. i'd like to removed the bulb but i didn't spend too much time trying to get the glove box out.
oh yeah, my amp drain was also 0.13. with the light off, it's 0.03
oh yeah, my amp drain was also 0.13. with the light off, it's 0.03
Julian,
Thanks that did it! It went from 0.13 to 0.03 just like you said.
I saw previous threads about this but when I originaly checked, the glovebox light was not on. What had happened was that the whole fixture had slid off its mount and was laying back behind the box, so I didn't see that anything was illuminated when I checked during the day....at night, I could see it was in fact glowing back there.
The light fixture has barbs on it and is slid on to the plastic where the hole for the plunger switch is. Although my door is severely warped (like you said) it works fine now that the fixture is properly seated. I wonder if this is happening to others as well, that the fixture is just slowly working its way back and not giving the plunger switch enough travel.
It is difficult to get to the fixture. You have to take the door apart and remover the glove box....the secret is in removing the hinges from the back of the door after you have removed the back of the door from the front of the door. Took me a while to figure this out.....it's a puzzle.
In retrospect, I would simply remove the bulb from the fixture or disconnect the fixture and live without a glovebox light!
Thanks!
S
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