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<blockquote data-quote="JackT" data-source="post: 20433" data-attributes="member: 7055">Thanks for the reply.&nbsp; I will be pulling fuses unless the 92ma draw I see is normal.&nbsp; What I do know is that 92ma draw calculates to draining a 72ah battery down to 50% in 16 days.&nbsp; I have yet to find a spec.PS:&nbsp; I found elsewhere on line where a mechanic stated that a parasitic draw in the 85ma area can be normal in vehicles with a lot of electronics, like mine.&nbsp; This makes a lot more sense because the 25ma max rule of thumb established decades ago cannot be true for vehicles constantly listening for signals from the mother ship and automatically connecting to your home Wi-Fi when in range to check for updates.&nbsp; The article said that a battery would go dead in ~29 days.&nbsp; This ties in closely to what it calculates to be for 92ma with the stock battery.&nbsp; &nbsp; Again, that would mean that you need to start and run it at least every 2 weeks if you plan to have it start, and if this much idle time is a common situation, consider a battery tender.&nbsp; Disconnecting the battery would work, but then you would need to use the manual key method to gain access to the hood release to reconnect.&nbsp; It's starting to gel that the 79-92ma that I'm seeing is about what it should be.Summary:&nbsp; In the absence of a specific spec, I'll go on record that mine ranges from 79 to 92ma.&nbsp; Both my experience and that of the mechanic in the article implies that to be able to start the vehicle beyond 2-weeks of non-use requires charging or disconnecting the battery.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JackT, post: 20433, member: 7055"] Thanks for the reply. I will be pulling fuses unless the 92ma draw I see is normal. What I do know is that 92ma draw calculates to draining a 72ah battery down to 50% in 16 days. I have yet to find a spec. PS: I found elsewhere on line where a mechanic stated that a parasitic draw in the 85ma area can be normal in vehicles with a lot of electronics, like mine. This makes a lot more sense because the 25ma max rule of thumb established decades ago cannot be true for vehicles constantly listening for signals from the mother ship and automatically connecting to your home Wi-Fi when in range to check for updates. The article said that a battery would go dead in ~29 days. This ties in closely to what it calculates to be for 92ma with the stock battery. Again, that would mean that you need to start and run it at least every 2 weeks if you plan to have it start, and if this much idle time is a common situation, consider a battery tender. Disconnecting the battery would work, but then you would need to use the manual key method to gain access to the hood release to reconnect. It's starting to gel that the 79-92ma that I'm seeing is about what it should be. Summary: In the absence of a specific spec, I'll go on record that mine ranges from 79 to 92ma. Both my experience and that of the mechanic in the article implies that to be able to start the vehicle beyond 2-weeks of non-use requires charging or disconnecting the battery. [/QUOTE]

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