[W126 Coupe] Back to the battery drain issue

[Markus Meyer]

Must be the ghost in the machine... 


Very weird, here we go again with it looking like someone other than the emailer responded...in this case it looks like I sent the email but I think it was Jim.  A week or so ago it was someone else who looked like they responded to themselves when they didn't.
 
Scary that someone/something can take over your email address and make it look like they are sending as you....
 
Markus

--- On Sat 02/04, Markus Meyer < mfmeyer at iwon.com > wrote:

From: Markus Meyer [mailto: mfmeyer at iwon.com]
To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:37:53 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Back to the battery drain issue

Negative ground issue ring a bell? 

Vance,

Well, if nobody has anyideas and you are at a loss, why not start pulling fuses and see what happens? One fuse at a time, a week at a time, and hopefully you can narrow it down to at least what items are the culprit. Theoretically when you pull the fuse causing the drain, it will stop, right? I know it may take a bit, but with no other answers...why not!?

Markus

--- On Sat 02/04, Jim Ham < jimham at porcine.com > wrote:

From: Jim Ham [mailto: jimham at porcine.com]
To: vance.rowley at tiscali.co.uk, mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:55:26 -0800
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Back to the battery drain issue

This may be off the wall, but it sounds like some heater is coming on to 
keep a regulated temperature. What's heated? I can think of a few things: 
bun warmers, windshield washer tips, maybe rear view mirrors. My car is a 
500 so has fewer of these items. You might be able to feel around searching 
for something warm. All that energy is going somewhere.

Regards,

Jim Ham

At 08:20 AM 2/4/2006, you wrote:
>Well unfortunately, although all evidence pointed to the vacuum pump as 
>the cause of this intermittent 6amp current draw. I have had power to the 
>pump disconnected for over a week now. It just so happens I haven't used 
>the car for this last week, so was a good opportunity to see if the 
>battery would be OK or not. Well, you guessed it, the battery was almost 
>dead. Certainly not enough power to start the car anyway. Just a few small 
>cranks of the engine.
>
>So, has anyone any ideas what else could draw around 6amps for between 30 
>and 60 secs every 5 to 10 minutes or so?
>The 5 year mystery still unsolved as yet.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Vance.
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