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Three week storage recommendations?

Discussion in 'Prime Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Janice N, Apr 27, 2017.

  1. Mendel Leisk

    Mendel Leisk Senior Member

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    Any time the ours will be sitting idle a day or two or three: I hook up a CTEK 4.3, let it run through it's cycle, and just leave it on. It's my understanding that it mostly does nothing from thereon, monitors the battery status, and gives a very occasional little tick. The issue as I see it, is that there's a very minor but inexorable background load happening, to maintain memories, power the little security blinking light, whatever. I measured it once, was a little under 20 milliamperes, constantly chewing away.

    Helps that the car is garage stored (secure, out of the weather), and I've got a quick connect plug installed.

    (See I'm repeating myself... :oops:)
     
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