I have 3 of these units now (all free, thankyou caverat). One
permanently mounted in my westy, a portable for my other vehicles and
a portable for work and home. The portables do seem to get warm. I
have left them on for a few hours accidentally but have not had the
misfortune of draining the battery.

Brien
www.busesbythwebeach.com

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:35:24 -0800, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> This is a 'portable' setup, plugs into the cigar lighter. She normally
> sticks the head in her purse when we're not using it. Seems to me it's a lot
> simpler to remember to turn the damn thing off or unplug it than rewiring
> anything, but you know how that goes.
> I wouldn't have thought it would have drained it that much either, which is
> why I posted about it. I haven't had any other issues with the system and
> didn't find any.
> The head gets quite warm- my wife had read about that before we got it and
> supposedly it's normal. I'm going to check into it further, but if it is
> normal for it to generate that kind of heat then it must be a pretty strong
> draw.
> 
> Cya,
> Robert
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jimt" <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: FYI Satellite Radio Users
> 
> On 2/12/05 7:34 PM, "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:
> 
> > Seems my wife left the Sirius/Audiovox head on after bringing my daughter
> > home
> > from school on Thursday. Got in Friday afternoon (about 28 hours later)
> > and
> > the battery was down far enough that it wouldn't crank the engine. This is
> > a
> > strong battery and a good charging system and there was no other drain
> > that I
> > could find. Fortunately it happened in the driveway.
> > It may seem like a common sense thing that should go without saying, but I
> > can
> > easily see somebody doing the same thing out on a trip, say, and getting
> > stuck, so there's yer heads up.
> >
> > Cya,
> > Robert
> >
> >
> Move it to a circuit that is on the switched side of the ignition rather
> than always hot.
> 
> It still shouldn�t have drained it that much though. Do you have an amp or
> is the radio also triggered by the sirius head?
> 
> ........................................
> jimt
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> Remember that sanity is optional.
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