Halloweenie
Bearded Banjo Brawler
The old battery that was in the bike when I bought it died on me on Wednesday and I had to get a tow home. Thankfully I had seen this coming (my float charger alerted me that something was funny), and I had already ordered a 12 Cell Ballistic battery, which of course arrived just after I left.
So when I went to install the new battery I wanted to make sure everything was hunky-dory. While checking I found a small parasitic draw and I went about tracking it down. I found it fairly quickly, the rectifier/regulator wires gong to the battery, but I didn't understand how that could be (the rectifier I have is from my HHB PMA kit). I went through all of my electrical connections and repaired any that looked funky and cleaned every contact I could find. Yet, no matter what I tried, I still had the same parasitic draw with the rectifier/regulator attached. Only when I disconnected it did the parasitic draw drop to zero.
This is probably stupid because it is such an insignificant amount, but would a .03 mA parasitic draw from the rectifier/regulator be abnormal? Should I be planning to replace it? Thanks for the help guys and gals.
So when I went to install the new battery I wanted to make sure everything was hunky-dory. While checking I found a small parasitic draw and I went about tracking it down. I found it fairly quickly, the rectifier/regulator wires gong to the battery, but I didn't understand how that could be (the rectifier I have is from my HHB PMA kit). I went through all of my electrical connections and repaired any that looked funky and cleaned every contact I could find. Yet, no matter what I tried, I still had the same parasitic draw with the rectifier/regulator attached. Only when I disconnected it did the parasitic draw drop to zero.
This is probably stupid because it is such an insignificant amount, but would a .03 mA parasitic draw from the rectifier/regulator be abnormal? Should I be planning to replace it? Thanks for the help guys and gals.
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