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2forme 01-03-2013 11:39 AM

Battery problems
 
Anyone have an issue with the stock battery? Mine apparently doesn't want to hold a charge past two days now....

Could just be a dud. Was curious if anyone had any problems with them.

JPxM0Dz 01-03-2013 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2forme (Post 641734)
Anyone have an issue with the stock battery? Mine apparently doesn't want to hold a charge past two days now....

Could just be a dud. Was curious if anyone had any problems with them.


Done any recent car audio ? I had a inline capacitor installed on my previous car and I had to use a trickle charger every few days due to the contant draw on the battery

CircuitJerk 01-03-2013 11:45 AM

Any aftermarket stuff added?
Tested load while car is off? Values?

2forme 01-03-2013 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by CircuitJerk (Post 641746)
Any aftermarket stuff added?
Tested load while car is off? Values?

Dead lol. I've had aftermarket stuff added, but I've moved it to my other car, and worked fine for a couple weeks.

frs23 01-03-2013 03:11 PM

"Dead?" What do you mean by that?

Did you check the impedance of the load the battery is seeing when car is off?
(Disconnect one battery terminal and use Ohm setting on voltmeter on + and - cable)

2forme 01-03-2013 04:11 PM

Haven't taken a multimeter to it, just noticed the car needing a jump after sitting a couple days. I'll look more into it.

whataboutbob 01-03-2013 04:37 PM

Without knowing what you've added it may be hard for us to help you.

My 1st guess is someone wired something so that it didn't turn off with the ignition like it was supposed to...

gmookher 01-03-2013 04:53 PM

bad battery or diode in alt...

Dezoris 01-03-2013 05:09 PM

Its your Android head unit!
Work backwords, unplug anything you have added rule it out.
The OEM Panasonic batteries are solid, rare to have a failure this early on.

Sony 01-04-2013 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by 2forme (Post 641753)
Dead lol. I've had aftermarket stuff added, but I've moved it to my other car, and worked fine for a couple weeks.

Chris, let me know when you have time, I'll come over and we can pull fuses and hook my Fluke Multimeter up to the car...much more accurate than el-cheapo multimeter from Home Depot. My bet is you have a parasitic draw from your audio gear...maybe your amp's aren't turning off properly. Once a Lead-Acid battery completely dies once, it becomes damaged and doesn't hold a charge well anymore, best course of action is to find the parasitic draw first, fix it and then replace the battery.

Sony 01-04-2013 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whataboutbob (Post 642347)
Without knowing what you've added it may be hard for us to help you.

My 1st guess is someone wired something so that it didn't turn off with the ignition like it was supposed to...

He has an Android Head Unit and Hertz Crossovers and Amps, as well as a few smaller things.

2forme 01-04-2013 08:03 AM

I installed my audio gear in my other car for testing, it worked fine. The battery has died once from leaving my dome light on by accident.


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