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Parasitic Drain

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Chucky, I agree. Usually I feel like I'm just poking various points with multimeter and hoping numbers come up I can paste on here ;)

Martin, thanks for the explanation! I was wondering what the heck was going on with that wire as I was looking at the diagram. I had read of that oddity before, thanks for filling me in on the rest!
 
J_C

What was your meter set at when you measured voltage?

I went home and checked mine and I only have .063 parasitic drain. That's right, six hundreths of a volt, not even a tenth of a volt.

As far as ohms, it was very high infact, 17.8MM connect lead to lead off of the battery. 200M setting on the meter in order to read it.

Amps, nada, even on the finest setting double checked with two different gauges.
 
It was set at A-, 20. When I checked for ohms I tried all the different settings, including 200M, but it registered 1. I have no idea, but I hope that means it is in fact WAY small =] I'm going to check the battery tomorrow, that'll give it 36 hours since I ran it last to drain, if it is draining
 
Maybe I wasn't explaining myself before:

When the battery is disconnected on the ground side, and then you put your multimeter on volts and put one probe on something and the other on the ground on the battery, you are completing the circuit from the 12v+ terminal to the ground terminal through the multimeter, which has a very high internal resistance that you don't know. So whatever number you get is meaningless, since it won't tell you how much is leaking. It's better to test resistance with the battery disconnected.
 
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