Hey all,
Of couse after I finally get my car back on the road another problem surfaces. After leaving it down a week and a half, I started it up fine. Drove it two days, then in the morning on the third day, the batt was dead. Took it to work to charge- dead. This is the second Optima my car has eaten. I took a coworker's advice to try to see if there is a leak somewhere by hooking up the negative cable and then running an ohm meter between the + terminal and the wire. It says it's pulling about 3/4 of an amp. I didn't know if this was good or not cause I know there is always a little bit of a drain on the battery, so I checked my dodge daily driver. It is pulling like 3.5amp. Maybe this is the computer for it's fuel injection, I'm not sure.
This is what I have done electrically to my car.
Fuel pump + relay: Power wire from batt, switch power sourced from cig lighter. Grounded to same place. Relay operated with switch.
PMGR starter: Power wire from batt, solonoid power from switched side of original fender solonoid.
3g Alt: Wired to BCBronco's specs. Power wire to fuse, then to fender solonoid +. lg/rd wire from car wired to VR, other VR wires are hooked up to alt per diagram. The rest from the car were capped off except the ye/wht wire which was run to + solonoid terminal.
-The rest of the wires that were on the solonoid were reattached to the solonoid or to the side of the fuse terminal in contact with the solonoid.
Tach- power from same wire a relay switch from cig lighter. then wired to lights, coil, and ground.
Now that I think about this, could a drain large enough to kill a battery in a night come from the tach always receiving power through the cigarrete lighter? I'm not sure, still just a novice with the diagrams and little nuances of car wiring. I'd appreciate any ideas or any points to a direction in which to go.
Thanks,
The Swede
Of couse after I finally get my car back on the road another problem surfaces. After leaving it down a week and a half, I started it up fine. Drove it two days, then in the morning on the third day, the batt was dead. Took it to work to charge- dead. This is the second Optima my car has eaten. I took a coworker's advice to try to see if there is a leak somewhere by hooking up the negative cable and then running an ohm meter between the + terminal and the wire. It says it's pulling about 3/4 of an amp. I didn't know if this was good or not cause I know there is always a little bit of a drain on the battery, so I checked my dodge daily driver. It is pulling like 3.5amp. Maybe this is the computer for it's fuel injection, I'm not sure.
This is what I have done electrically to my car.
Fuel pump + relay: Power wire from batt, switch power sourced from cig lighter. Grounded to same place. Relay operated with switch.
PMGR starter: Power wire from batt, solonoid power from switched side of original fender solonoid.
3g Alt: Wired to BCBronco's specs. Power wire to fuse, then to fender solonoid +. lg/rd wire from car wired to VR, other VR wires are hooked up to alt per diagram. The rest from the car were capped off except the ye/wht wire which was run to + solonoid terminal.
-The rest of the wires that were on the solonoid were reattached to the solonoid or to the side of the fuse terminal in contact with the solonoid.
Tach- power from same wire a relay switch from cig lighter. then wired to lights, coil, and ground.
Now that I think about this, could a drain large enough to kill a battery in a night come from the tach always receiving power through the cigarrete lighter? I'm not sure, still just a novice with the diagrams and little nuances of car wiring. I'd appreciate any ideas or any points to a direction in which to go.
Thanks,
The Swede
