constant power ?

[hornet05]

does amyone know if power is running thru the jeep, when the ignition is turned off for the night, reason being i have had 2 flat batteries so far, and also on the scond one i have installed a reverse camera and sensor, (after market from repco ), and now another flat battery, need help is someone can.
Cheers

[briteway]

How old are both batteries? Can they hold charge?

There should be no power running through except for little things like keeping the memories, etc. Did it happen before you installed the camera, if not, then did you get the power from the constant wire or ACC?

[fester]

You could have a parasitic drain from something with a short. As Briteway says there are factory things that drain due to memories etc but it should be milliamps and take ages to flatten a battery that has had no charge (eg driven). You can try and track it down if you have a multimeter. How quickly are they going flat. If you put a multimeter in line with the power cable with everything off it will show you what amps are being drawn. If there is a decent draw showing you cna then turn stuff on and see if they make a difference. If you turn something on and it makes no difference or a very small unexpected difference that could be your culprit as it may already be drawing a load. Auto leccie probably has a better way and a flash clamp meter to make life easier but at a cost of course.

[hornet05]

Originally Posted by briteway

How old are both batteries? Can they hold charge?

There should be no power running through except for little things like keeping the memories, etc. Did it happen before you installed the camera, if not, then did you get the power from the constant wire or ACC?

The 2nd battery was new a year old, after putting camera on 3 days its dead, have no acc, so was wired to a constant feed, only when car is on, I hope.
Still looking why no acc , before camera was put on. As a pensioner auto Lexie is out of the question.

[hornet05]

Originally Posted by hornet05

The 2nd battery was new a year old, after putting camera on 3 days its dead, have no acc, so was wired to a constant feed, only when car is on, I hope.
Still looking why no acc , before camera was put on. As a pensioner auto Lexie is out of the question.

Also as a footnote can anyone tell me about this circuit breaker in the fuse box, was told it could be prob with acc, but having trouble finding it, if you can take a pic of it with arrow to it, and how to reset or replace it would help immensely . Cheers for now.

[briteway]

I think you're confusing it with something else. ACC is your accessories (on the WG it's when you turn the key all the way back anti clockwise IIRC). It's a live wire from the battery to your steering wheel and ACC's are turned on only when you turn the key on. Like the cigarette lighter would be on ACC.

I think you've found your problem, you probably wired the camera directly to a constant supply so it's always on by the sounds of it. Being only a camera, you could redo the wiring and connect it behind to the lighter. If you don't like it to be on the same fuse as the lighter, you could install a relay that turns on your camera when ACC turns on via the cigarette lighter. If you only use it for reverse, then I'd find the reverse light wire and connect it to that but you might need a relay for that one anyway.

[hornet05]

Originally Posted by briteway

I think you're confusing it with something else. ACC is your accessories (on the WG it's when you turn the key all the way back anti clockwise IIRC). It's a live wire from the battery to your steering wheel and ACC's are turned on only when you turn the key on. Like the cigarette lighter would be on ACC.

I think you've found your problem, you probably wired the camera directly to a constant supply so it's always on by the sounds of it. Being only a camera, you could redo the wiring and connect it behind to the lighter. If you don't like it to be on the same fuse as the lighter, you could install a relay that turns on your camera when ACC turns on via the cigarette lighter. If you only use it for reverse, then I'd find the reverse light wire and connect it to that but you might need a relay for that one anyway.

I should have mentioned it has sensors too, and it only works in reverse, and yes you are right, wired to direct power it draining my battery, so problem is to get my accessories fixed, have no acc at all. That's why I need to know about this circuit breaker. Any pics would help or is it like a fuse replaceable , and have wired it to reverse light..