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Power drainage a problem?

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So I just finished all the electrical on my caf? build and everything is working great. What I am noticing though is a slight drainage from my battery when it's parked and the ignition off. I have a 8 cell Ballistic Lithium battery brand new, tail light, turn signals, tach and speedo and that's about it...no alarm or clock, ect. I checked the voltage yesterday and it stood at 12.86v. Within several hours I could see it slowly drop .01 every hour or so and today it's down to 12.78v. It seems really small, but I wanted to see if this is normal? Thanks,
 
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claygs750e said:
So I just finished all the electrical on my caf? build and everything is working great. What I am noticing though is a slight drainage from my battery when it's parked and the ignition off. I have a 8 cell Ballistic Lithium battery brand new, tail light, turn signals, tach and speedo and that's about it...no alarm or clock, ect. I checked the voltage yesterday and it stood at 12.86v. Within several hours I could see it slowly drop .01 every hour or so and today it's down to 12.78v. It seems really small, but I wanted to see if this is normal? Thanks,
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use your amp meter to see if there is any draw, you cant tell by looking at he battery voltage because it has it's own internal losses.

Put a ohm meter between the ground and the negative terminal where everything is off
 
I put my meter and it shows 0.4-0.6 Ohms between ground frame to ground terminal. I also connected the meter in series and it shows zero amps connected to the ground terminal.
The voltage on the battery has held stead at 12.80 all day so maybe I jumped the gun and there was an initial small drain.
 
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