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Thinking of fitting a battery isolator to my Trak.
Previous owners have done stuff with the electrics and the course of time has no doubt caused the problem, in that if I dont drive the Trak for a week the battery drains low enough not to start.
Have seen the very straight forward 'Discarnect' type, which does was it says on the tin, but would require the bonnet popped to activate/deactivate.
Quite fancied fitting the red key type, which could be operated without opening the bonnet.
Anyone got any thoughts/advice?
Would the key type be easy to fit for an electrical numpty?
Any other ideas (other than finding the source of the drain).
Ta
The best option is to find
The best option is to find the drain, how much is draining over what time period?
Begin with the alternator, any defect or internal problem will quickly drain the battery. Check the starter motor next, solonoids can become arced up and transfer power over a period of time.
Alarm systems would be the next area, many older types have very high power consumption, so over several days can drain the battery.
Test the current consumption of each individual circuit. To do this you remove a fuse and with a tester insert a probe into each half of the fuse sockets. This will give a reading and from these you can ascertain any high consuming circuits. Simply identify what components this circuit feeds and isolate them one by one.
Remember there are power consuming circuits which are independent of the ignition, clock and radio memory feeds being two.