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Re: Acceptable current draw
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 1/1/2017

I agree that 0.14 amp [140 milliamps] is about 3 times too high.

I would start with a fuse-voltage-drop test.

Even a 0.5 amp battery maintainer should be able to handle a 140 ma draw, so perhaps your cust is not as rigorous with the maintainer as he claims... Login to read more.