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hemi twofifteen turbo Regular Location: Melbourne Registered: October 2003	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........ Sun, 06 February 2005 13:38 If you disconnected the battery and left it, it is most likely the battery -- if it was fully charged to begin with. If the battery was dead flat to start with, and you only charge it for 1/2 hour (on the drive to work) it will surface charge enough to start the car afterwoods aided by the hot engine which is much easier to turn over and will start on the first kick. If you leave it for a while the surface charge disperses into the rest of the battery and you have a dead battery again. esp if the battery is DEAD flat (not even a faint red grow from ignition warning lights) By the sounds of it though you have a current draw problem somewhere. When did it first happen? recently installed anything new like a sterio etc? Is your boot light going off when you close it? .. etc. To test the alternator yourself get a multimeter and check the voltage over the battery terminals with the engine running with headlights on.. anything under 12.4 or so indicates a problem, and should really be around 13.5v A way to check for excessive current draw is to remove a terminal and connect one lead of the multimeter to this terminal and the other to the lead that was disconnected. Any current draw over 100ma is quite excessive. make sure to do this with everything off in the car otherwise you'll blow multimeter fuse (excessive current) If >100ma then happy hunting for what it is! Hope this helps [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	weird electrical/mechanical problem........	carsanactra	Sun, 06 February 2005 13:02
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	CrUZsida	Sun, 06 February 2005 13:06
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	YelloRolla	Sun, 06 February 2005 13:34
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	hemi twofifteen turbo	Sun, 06 February 2005 13:38
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	allencr	Sun, 06 February 2005 14:23
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	fade-e	Sun, 06 February 2005 14:25
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	Kyosho	Sun, 06 February 2005 22:16
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	ST162GT-R	Sun, 06 February 2005 23:01
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	bunkyT18	Mon, 07 February 2005 01:47
	Re: weird electrical/mechanical problem........	carsanactra	Mon, 07 February 2005 09:09

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