I recently installed three Prosport gauges on a customers car (NA MR2., oil temp, oil press, fuel press). Not too long later the MR2 came back with a battery drain issue, while parked for like 2+ days.
NOTE these were the premium gauges with a MAX, MIN recall and alarm function.
I found that the newly installed gauges were drawing 0.055A (by themselves, not including the ecu and everything else), which is enough to drain the battery in a hurry. So after discussing the issue with the customer i installed a switch to cut all power to gauges while parked for an extended amount of time.
This was an issue because he had to reset all of the peset max/min limits for the gauges alarm settings, each time the switch was hit.
Is this something you have to deal with with aftermarket gauges, or am i missing something?
I am thinking of using prosport, but id like to be able to let her sit for a couple days without draining the battery.(id also like a better solution for my customer)
NOTE these were the premium gauges with a MAX, MIN recall and alarm function.
I found that the newly installed gauges were drawing 0.055A (by themselves, not including the ecu and everything else), which is enough to drain the battery in a hurry. So after discussing the issue with the customer i installed a switch to cut all power to gauges while parked for an extended amount of time.
This was an issue because he had to reset all of the peset max/min limits for the gauges alarm settings, each time the switch was hit.
Is this something you have to deal with with aftermarket gauges, or am i missing something?
I am thinking of using prosport, but id like to be able to let her sit for a couple days without draining the battery.(id also like a better solution for my customer)
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