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Chassis Battery Parasitic Draw Solved

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tmac11

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Hi All,

Just FYI on what was causing by Coachman Leprechaun chassis battery to die after days of sitting. A while back, I had a bad battery and replaced it. At the same time, I connected a house power 12V line to our avm200 radio as it was only powered when the ignition was on so we could not listen to the radio when camping off of house power. I disconnected the ignition wire but I left the always powered yellow line connected to keep the memory alive that was connected to the chassis battery from factory. This somehow causes a 700ma draw from the chassis battery even when the radio is off. I cut the yellow wire and poof the draw went to 15ma. So for now I connected the yellow to the 12v line.

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else may have a similar issue.

br tim
 
Glad you figured it out.
 

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