[T3] Batteries.
Jim Adney
jadney at vwtype3.org
Fri Nov 16 07:16:26 PST 2018
On 5 Jul 2018 at 13:32, William J wrote:
> I checked for a parasitic draw and found 5 mA , isolated it between the
> battery + red/white lead to the voltage reg B+ I removed the other
> red/white to fuse box off reg B+ during test . It's not much of a drain
> and I can only determin it's the Bosch electronic regulator
I finally got around to checking this with some of the new style Bosch solid
state voltage regulators that I have here in stock. I found one to draw 0.54
mA and a second one to draw 0.57 mA. That's with a battery that's sitting
with ~12.6 V on it.
That appears to be by design, and it's not much. It's probably less than the
self discharge rate of the battery. At that rate, it would take more than a year
to drain 5 AHr out of the battery.
I can't explain why the current I measure is only ~10% of what William
measures.
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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