[W126 Coupe] Back to the battery drain issue

[Vance Rowley]

Hi Nathan, didn't know you were still on the list. Long time no hear. Good ideas Nathan, I will look into it. At the moment, I am physically disconnecting the battery terminal after I have finished with the car for the day. So the battery isn't actually getting drained often at all at the moment. I'm not giving it the chance to.It's a real pain though re-setting up all of the audio system, EQ and everything else that requires continuous power to retain memory every time I use the car. I would much rather find the cause of this 5 year on going problem. The reason it's been going on for so long is, I used to use the car on a daily basis. Using the car every day, or even every other day, you wouldn't even know there was a problem.

I will certainly check out the local car accessory place though for one of those do-dads until I have cracked it. Didn't know they existed.

Cheers,
Vance
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nathan Goodlet 
  To: Vance Rowley ; Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists 
  Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Back to the battery drain issue


  First -
  A 6 amp drain on 12 volts circuit should be putting out 72 watts of heat. Maybe time exposure pictures taken with infrared film will show an unexpected hot spot?

  Second -
  Have you thought about using a battery quick disconnect? Until you get this problem solved? Batteries that keep getting completely discharged don't last very long. This do-dad allows you to unscrew the green bolt-head by hand and the battery cable is not connected any longer. For about $5  Nathan


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