Thread: battery drainage

Either your battery is nearing end of life or you have a parasitic drain ...

Leave a small float charger attached when you park it up at least until you can sort wether it's one or the other.

I get around 4 days,,
I was going to buy a flexible solar panel and glue it to the roof behind the rear sunroof,,
but now am going with a normal 10w (so its re/movable) on the dash

cheaper than trying to find the draw..

Just make sure it is not plugged in through a plug which switches off with the ignition.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I get around 4 days,,
I was going to buy a flexible solar panel and glue it to the roof behind the rear sunroof,,
but now am going with a normal 10w (so its re/movable) on the dash

cheaper than trying to find the draw..

A bit annoying, isn't it ? I get an easy 7-9 days or so, but have an aux' battery under the hood (Optima Yellow D34 + D31 cranker) + Traxide USI-160 which disconnects at around 12.2v ... so I know when the traxide LED on the dash starts to flash on/off instead of it's usual fade in/out the batteries have disconnect from each other and it's time to charge ...

... but the Disco can sit for weeks to months sometimes without going anywhere, so instead, I just plug the charger into one of the rear bumper anderson plugs as soon as I park it up and it stays on float charge 24/7. Simples !

Like you, too lazy too much expense to look for the drain ... just leave it on charge permanently ... bigger fish to fry ... Solar not an option as I'm parked under cover in a position that is too hard to rig up a solar charge setup.