Strange. Clock off by 10 hours/week

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01-22-18, 07:06 PM

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MellonC00

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Originally Posted by Lexmus

Sounds like a parasitic current drain. You need a DC current meter to measure the current running from the battery when the car is off. Once you get the baseline current, start puling fuses and see if the current changes. Once you do, you know which circuit is at fault and have a chance to fix it

The current should be well below 100 mA.

I get the point about the parasitic draw on the system but if I indeed had a parasitic draw my batteries would have died within weeks if not days since installing a new battery. In my case, the battery lasted 6 months.