You can locate many abnormal parasitic loads using a simple method.
Car battery completely dead overnight.
Start the car which has the good condition battery and the dead battery would start charging.
Many new cars alert you if you ve left your lights on but may not have alerts for other components.
Continue doing so for a few minutes.
Even though 80 percent of the capacity remains when a car battery dips to around 10 5 volts the battery is considered to be fully discharged because taking the cycle any deeper will cause irreversible damage to the plates through excessive sulfation.
During this drain test make sure to keep the doors and trunk closed so that no light bulb or dome light remains on.
If you know the battery is good because it has been replaced recently and it s dead in the morning there is an.
If you are not aware of the problem the parasitic load can drain power off your battery overnight.
How to fix a battery draw step 1.
Headlights or even a very dim dome light will drain a battery dead overnight.
What causes a car battery to keep dying.
You ve probably done this at least once in your life you come home from work tired and not really thinking and left the headlights on didn t completely close the trunk or even forgot about some internal lights.
Now after few minutes have elapsed you should start the car with the flat battery.
Do you have a honda pilot odyssey or accord that the battery drains overnight.
Overnight the battery drains and in the morning your car won t start.
Your car battery is designed to store electrical power which is used to start the engine when the key is turned.
Headlights or dome lights left on.
Then connect one end of the cable to the positive terminal of the donor battery and then connect the.
Now the second negative of the jumper cable should be connected to the metallic portion of the car which contains the dead battery.
In this video i show a very common problem were the ac re.
The alternator is.