HELP my battery keeps going dead .... HELP

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Jul 10, 2005 | 09:13 PM

00lexondub

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HELP my battery keeps going dead .... HELP

guys i dont know whats going on, i am having poblems with the car, i need some advice. i origninally hought it was my alternator going bad, but i had it tested and its charging 13.5 ...
so i replaced both of my batteies ( i run 2 batteries) i also had the alternator juiced to 125 amps too..
also i run a 1 farad cap in rear to help ith power of the rear batteries...

this is the problem i am having
in the mornings the car is dead, it wont start,
but hen i jump the car anad drive it to work it is fine and will start for about 4-5 hours, so the battery is cahgring and the altenraotr is working, the problem is something must be drainging the battery, now i check all my amps, the tvs, the ps2 the lights and interior lights, and none of that is on..
how can i check to see if constant power is on somehwer?????? i mean it has to be something draining the battery every single night...

please HELP

Jul 10, 2005 | 09:22 PM

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do you have lojack or anything like that?

Jul 10, 2005 | 09:27 PM

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hehe what in the world is a lojack..
themechanic at my dads dealership might have one

Jul 10, 2005 | 09:31 PM

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Have you had anything installed recently. It would be weird for something in your car to "all of a sudden" be draining your battery. If you have an aftermarket alarm, I would check their first. Do you have a circuit breaker for your audio? If so, I would trip the breaker so all of your audio is off over night. Then if your battery is dead the next morning, you know it's something else...

Jul 10, 2005 | 09:33 PM

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it has been doing this since the halltech interceptor install (my EMS).. you think that oucld be dong it ?

Jul 10, 2005 | 09:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 00lexondub

hehe what in the world is a lojack..
themechanic at my dads dealership might have one

Lojack... its a tracking unit for your car. If it gets stolen the cops turn on the tracker and they find your car (if its not already in a container). When i was working at the dealership, some of the cars with Lojack had problems with the brain going bad and then trying to maintain power. so it would drain battery juice for the 12 volt source. But thats neither here nor there...

Check your door, trunk and glove compartment latches... sometimes those go bad. also, check for any sort of wiring that may be tapped into a 12 volt source other than the battery. Sometimes those will drain power away from the battery (Neon lighting, that sort of thing). i know it sounds dumb, but check all your interior lights. one of them may be on and you just dont know it. like your back seat lights...

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Jul 10, 2005 | 09:39 PM

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it has been doing this since the halltech interceptor install (my EMS).. you think that oucld be dong it ?

Rick, you need to go back to the the installer who did your Haltech stand alone. They must have tapped into a constant wire which is draining the battery.