Parasitic draw narrowed. Please help?

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Apr 3, 2014 | 10:49 PM

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bjones7131

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I agree BILL is the man, he will give you good info.

Apr 3, 2014 | 11:26 PM

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Cuz13

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Originally Posted by Only vette

On my multimeter, there's three holes to put the two plugs in. For the red cord, there's an Amp and then a mA one I think. But the smaller hole says unfused 10 sec max, which I have no idea. Anyway, can I put the red multimeter lead into the smaller amp(ohm)volt hole to get finer and smaller readings because currently even 0.01 amp could be boarder line...

0.01 is 10 mA (milliamps) the multimeter is fused up to 10 Amps and you need to be plugged into the 10 amp fused hole

Apr 4, 2014 | 07:21 PM

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Greg_E

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Originally Posted by Only vette

You need to plug the lead into the 10A socket. If you use the other socket the high current draw before the BCM goes into sleep mode will blow the fuse in the meter (if it's a good one) or blow the meter( if it's a cheap one). If after the BCM sheds all the loads you need better resolution find a better meter.

Last edited by Greg_E; Apr 4, 2014 at 07:46 PM.