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Subject:Re: Aux Battery system, volts escaping to ground!
From:craig cowan
Date:Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:37:28 -0400

Well with the car off, no current should be moving between the two batteries
right?
There are 2amps and being measured across the relay. As well as between any
one battery and the ground.

So what should I be testing?
You seem to be indicating that I should just be checking the quality of the
ground? It's sound. It's where the volts appear to be going.

-Craig

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> Sure but for measuring what you think is a problem you need to put the
> meter between 85 and ground as the only connection between those points
> during the test.
>
> Mark
>
> craig cowan wrote:
>
>> Pin 85 goes to ground. Is this not how it should be?
>>
>> -Craig
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net
>> <mailto:mdrillock@cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    But what is going between pin 85 and ground at that time?
>>
>>    Mark
>>
>>
>>    craig cowan wrote:
>>
>>        The two amps are going between the Either battery and pin 85.
>>        (one lead on either pin 30 or 87a, and the other on 85.
>>
>>        -Craig
>>
>>
>>        On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM, mark drillock<mdrillock@cox.net
>>        <mailto:mdrillock@cox.net>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>            I'm not sure that blaming the relay is the answer. Are you
>>            measuring the 2
>>            amps on pin 85?
>>
>>            Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
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