Re: [alfa] small current drain, '77 spider

[Jon Pike <jhpike@xxxxxxx>]

> The interior and glove box lights go off when their respective doors are 
> > shut. AFAIK, nothing else is on either. The battery itself is maybe 6 
> > years old, but it was one of those top-of-the-line, no-maintenance 
> > batteries (so I can't check the fluid level) with a long forecast service life.
Since you've measured the current draw,  and it's very small.. I'd say 
that isn't your problem. (barring some intermittant load that you didn't 
see)

With 6 yrs on any battery, despite any "super long life" claims,  I'd 
think you have one of the failure modes of lead acid batteries,  where 
the plates slowly flake materiel off of themselves.. it builds up at the 
bottom, eventually creating a conducting path in the cells themselves, 
draining the battery.  They even put a gap in the bottom (plates don't 
go all the way down) to slow down this eventuality.

Happens to them all eventually, if something else dosen't first.  Hey.. 
6 yrs is pretty good run!

Jon
77 Spider
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