kakashi7593
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Hi guys, hope you all doing well.
Yesterday I heard something about this and I am hoping someone can explain what is it and how to fix it if it exists in my Punto mk2b.
Car battery technician told me that there are two possible "things" that are draining cars battery while the car is parked at home(or in garage).
He called first one, surface electricity draw/drain.
What it is is, if you take out your cars battery out of the car, you take a multi-meter and you put positive lead on positive terminal, and then you put negative lead onto plastic part of cars battery, you will notice that "something" is draining your cars battery because multi-meter will show a value of 1-2 volts, or even higher.
The solution is to simply take the battery and clean it from dust/dirt/grease and clean its terminals.
Another way your battery can be drained, as he called it, is from "parasite draw/drain".
Supposedly this is because of manufacturers mistake.
In Fiat Punto(he did not say exactly which model or mark) there exists both parasite and surface electricity draw on dashboard.
Electricity draw is between 0.7-1.4 v and also more than 1 amp until this issue is fixed.
And to solve this you simply use a resistor.
My questions are, does anyone know about this and is it present on my mk2b Fiat Punto 2005 ?
And is there a webpage where I can read more about this issue and how to fix it exactly ? Like, where to install this resistor, its values etc. ?
Yesterday I heard something about this and I am hoping someone can explain what is it and how to fix it if it exists in my Punto mk2b.
Car battery technician told me that there are two possible "things" that are draining cars battery while the car is parked at home(or in garage).
He called first one, surface electricity draw/drain.
What it is is, if you take out your cars battery out of the car, you take a multi-meter and you put positive lead on positive terminal, and then you put negative lead onto plastic part of cars battery, you will notice that "something" is draining your cars battery because multi-meter will show a value of 1-2 volts, or even higher.
The solution is to simply take the battery and clean it from dust/dirt/grease and clean its terminals.
Another way your battery can be drained, as he called it, is from "parasite draw/drain".
Supposedly this is because of manufacturers mistake.
In Fiat Punto(he did not say exactly which model or mark) there exists both parasite and surface electricity draw on dashboard.
Electricity draw is between 0.7-1.4 v and also more than 1 amp until this issue is fixed.
And to solve this you simply use a resistor.
My questions are, does anyone know about this and is it present on my mk2b Fiat Punto 2005 ?
And is there a webpage where I can read more about this issue and how to fix it exactly ? Like, where to install this resistor, its values etc. ?
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