is this possible

[willfish]

if your window buttun broke , could it cause a short to drain your battery ?


I ain't no eletrical guru , but I have a freeking short somewhere ,
My altornator is charging the battery, but is I let it sit over night , its dead!!!,, So I got a short somewhere I ain't got a freeking clue where its at and how to find it...

Will

 

[Supraboostin]

get a test light,disconnect the negative cable from the battery and connect the test light between the cable and battery then start pulling fuses.if you pull a fuse and the light goes out then you have a short in that circuit
make sure everything is off and doors close

 

[willfish]

test light huh ? not sure what they look like? does it look like a fluke meter with two prbes type things at the end ?


does it have 2 probes, or like a positive and negative ? etc

I can get one at home depot right ? and about how much ?


dam I feel abit stupid

WIll

 

[clifftrail]

It can be anything really, just to wires connected to a light source. They are cheap, any hardware or auto parts store should have one.

 

[Supra Blues]

It can be anything really, just to wires connected to a light source. They are cheap, any hardware or auto parts store should have one.

The is essentially what a test light is. Either that or get a volt meter.

 

[Supra Blues]

get a test light,disconnect the negative cable from the battery and connect the test light between the cable and battery then start pulling fuses.if you pull a fuse and the light goes out then you have a short in that circuit
make sure everything is off and doors close

Maybe I am reading this wrong, but if you connect your test light to the disconnected negative battery cable and the positive battery post, the light will never turn off, until the battery dies.

Another possibility is to leave the battery connected, get a volt meter and connect to neg and pos posts. Start pulling fuses, one at a time, when your volt meter jumps or goes back up to approx 12v, then your short is in that circuit. This way you can see the draw on the battery when you are pulling fuses. With the fuse out where the short is, you should see no voltage draw on the battery.

 

[shaeff]

test light:

http://www.audiooutfitter.com/images/items/ib27450.jpg

-shaeff

 

[willfish]

ok, I took out some fuses onder the driver seat and found nothing, whent to the hood and puule some and this is what I found,,,

it said the dome on the fuse lid,, afte i hooked up the test light, one end to the neg terminal, and the other to the battery, still having the pos connected, I got a light on,, after pulling the dome fuse, the light dimmed for a sec , then whent out, is there anything else that that fuse runs besides the actual dome ?

Will

 

[willfish]

that fuse run anything else besides the dome light ?

Will

 

[supraman7mgte]

or you could jusd disconnect the switch that you think is causing the problem,and let it sit overnight and see if it still drains the batt.

 

[willfish]

you kinda lost me, what switch ?


Will

 

[Justin]

christ just do it the right way!

Get a multimeter that will read current.

disconnected your negitive (or positve) batter terminal.

Hook your multimeter in line with the battery and batter cable



|Battery|---|DMM|---|Battery Cable|

like that.

measure the amount of current.

I think toyota says that anything upto 70 or 80 miliamps is okay, but I think that's extremely high. both supras here are around twenty miliamps. Make sure the car is OFF when you're doing this test.

if you have a high reading, then start pulling fuses until your current draw drops down to a normal level. then you'll have found your circuit at fault.

 

[willfish]

ya, ok, how to hook it up ok, but christ, I'm a educated dumb person, how do I measure the current
talk to me like I'm stupid.......

sorry, bad day/ week./ month/ year




Will

 

[Nick M]

The dome lamp dims gradually from a capacitor.

 

[supraman7mgte]

diddnt mean to confuse,you mentioned the switch to your window was broken. just think if you had a short on a 12v circuit it might smoke a wire somewhere...

 

[Justin]

ya, ok, how to hook it up ok, but christ, I'm a educated dumb person, how do I measure the current
talk to me like I'm stupid.......

sorry, bad day/ week./ month/ year

might all of you hear in the news about the guy that rigged the tubbing from the exhaust to the inside widow taped up with the car running ........ and me in it.................... seriously................,,,,serious..........
,,, thats how its just might happen................................................



Will

dont' be talkin like that, we don't know if you're serious or not :nono:


go get a multimeter that will measure current... there will be a switch that says 'amps' or 'a' or 'currrent' on there. get a digital display, its easy to use

 

[tte]

If you want to measure current go get a clamp on current meter..It will be alot easier for you if you do not know alot about meter instead of trying to hook a digital meter in series. A clamp on meter has 2 jaws which you place around the cable and it will measure current. Go to OSh or home depot or wherever and ask the staff for help on the clamp on current meter and they will show you.

Cheers,
Roy