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JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Drain test would be done in Amps wouldn't it?
I had new battery fitted to mine by the aa(broke down)on my 182.. only last few months..i broke down again..
aa man said they fitted wrong grade of battery..(LEAD)..he fitted a new calicium one,been fine since...
maybe check the grade of your battery...sometimes you can just get a bad one. depends how long your battery been standing before you bought it.
all batteries are guaranteed for least 3 years, take it back..
aa man said they fitted wrong grade of battery..(LEAD)..he fitted a new calicium one,been fine since...
maybe check the grade of your battery...sometimes you can just get a bad one. depends how long your battery been standing before you bought it.
all batteries are guaranteed for least 3 years, take it back..
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http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/R...ce2c5e744ef8d47b3a164d0fb43280a1fbb68&000020# i think thats the same as mine, will have to double check after
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
That battery is the right one.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Give this video a watch, i have a drain on my battery too and i'm going to give this a go.
Mine doesn't go dead overnight like yours though, takes about 5 days on mine.
Mine doesn't go dead overnight like yours though, takes about 5 days on mine.
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JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
No prob :approve:
Just make sure you set your multimeter properly like he says, or you will blow the fuses inside it lol
Just make sure you set your multimeter properly like he says, or you will blow the fuses inside it lol
Mk4 Mondeo Estate
Just so people have an idea what they are doing, the important things to know are.
Volts = Potential difference.
Amps = Current
Ohms = Resistance
For an example and ease of explanation, you've got a 12v battery with a bulb connected with a positive wire between the positive terminal of the battery to the bulb and a negative wire between the negative terminal of the battery and the bulb.
If you were to measure volts between the positive and negative of the bulb, you'd get a reading of 12v as there is a 12v difference between the positive and negative side. However, if you were to measure positive to positive, you'd get 0v as there is no difference.
For amps, you have to break into the circuit to measure, so you'd take away the negative cable and put the positive multimeter wire to the bulb and the negative multimeter wire to the battery, this allows you to measure the amount of current flowing through that circuit.
For ohms, if you measured volts across a wire or a component like in the first example and the voltage shown on the gauge is less than the system voltage, this is called a voltage drop and is caused by high resistance. To measure the resistance of a wire or component, you'd disconnect this wire or component and put the multimeter probes each end and this will tell you the resistance. A high reading on a wire would lead you to corrosion or a broken wire.
Volts = Potential difference.
Amps = Current
Ohms = Resistance
For an example and ease of explanation, you've got a 12v battery with a bulb connected with a positive wire between the positive terminal of the battery to the bulb and a negative wire between the negative terminal of the battery and the bulb.
If you were to measure volts between the positive and negative of the bulb, you'd get a reading of 12v as there is a 12v difference between the positive and negative side. However, if you were to measure positive to positive, you'd get 0v as there is no difference.
For amps, you have to break into the circuit to measure, so you'd take away the negative cable and put the positive multimeter wire to the bulb and the negative multimeter wire to the battery, this allows you to measure the amount of current flowing through that circuit.
For ohms, if you measured volts across a wire or a component like in the first example and the voltage shown on the gauge is less than the system voltage, this is called a voltage drop and is caused by high resistance. To measure the resistance of a wire or component, you'd disconnect this wire or component and put the multimeter probes each end and this will tell you the resistance. A high reading on a wire would lead you to corrosion or a broken wire.
Clio 182 FF
My 182 has a battery drain too, absolutely fine if you use it every day but leave it for a few days and it drains low and causes the alarm to keep going off :dapprove:
Is this multimeter up to the job for testing battery drain?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rapitest-DM10-Digital-mini-electrical-test-meter-/160769621479
Is this multimeter up to the job for testing battery drain?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rapitest-DM10-Digital-mini-electrical-test-meter-/160769621479
good video that, i'll have a crack at it tomorrow if the weathers good.
http://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-83002r-s-digital-multimeter-with-temp-probe/88381 thats the one i got
http://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-83002r-s-digital-multimeter-with-temp-probe/88381 thats the one i got
Clio 182 FF
Is that with using the car daily? My car rarely gets used so if left for a couple of days I end up with flat battery, if used daily there is no issue. I've tried it with a multimeter but it doesn't register any AMP draw. Its probably a case of me not using it properly but tried all the settings can only get a reading for the volts and in Ohms. Anyway electrics isn't my forte so its going to the auto electricans this week as I cant find the issue.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Set your meter to amps, remove the negative cable on the battery.
Now put the probes of the meter to finish the circuit. So, one on the battery terminal and the other on the negative cable.
i could leave mine for around 2 days before i have to start it for 30 mins otherwise i'd have a dead battery. I couldn't really test the amp draw as mine only goes down to 10 amps which is nowhere near enough to see if something was draining the power.
Clio 182 FF
That's exactly what I did. It didn't register anything on the Amps setting using this meter - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rapitest-D...-/160769621479
So I also borrowed this piece of kit and couldn't get it to register anything that indicated what the amp draw was, I was told by the previous owner the RAC tested it at 0.4AMPs. If I got a reading anywhere near that I would be happy so I could start pulling fuses to chase the problem.
Clio 182 FF
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Was previously tested at 0.4 amps? Shouldn't be more than 0.05 amps ideally.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
That yellow one you got probably isn't very good.
And that one you borrowed, does it do AC and DC? Needs to be DC for batteries.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Ahh cool, set to DC and the 10mA. It should give a reading of some sort the way i mentioned before, as long as you have the probes the right way round lol
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
It doesn't look like any of those options. Is that off position the power off, or can you leave it on that and there's a different on/off switch?
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Ahh right, well i don't know too much about house electrics but it has an RCD setting.
RCD being Residual-Current Device and Amps is a current, so i'd go with that.
Not sure what the symbols are on the RCD mode, but the bottom one... RCD auto test might work.
RCD being Residual-Current Device and Amps is a current, so i'd go with that.
Not sure what the symbols are on the RCD mode, but the bottom one... RCD auto test might work.
