Re: Remote Car Battery Voltage Monitoring

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

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> > Thanks for the info.  Hopefully the dash charger will do the trick.
>
>
> Hi Bobby:
>
> Make sure the dash charger is putting out more current than the "on
> board electronics" require.  If, for instance, your total current draw
> is greater than the dash charger can supply, you're going to wind up in
> the same situation (dead battery).  Additionally, (and at night time)
> the current draw on the battery is going to go back to "normal", and the
> charger may not be powerful enough to "keep up".

Thanks for the heads up.

http://www.exide.com/products/trans/na/battery_care/electrical_parasitic_loa
d.pdf

Has a discussion of just that potential problem and how to trace it.  The
process is woefully very much like hunting down a bad X-10 device or
telephone extension.  Out comes the clamp ammeter.

--
Bobby G.