[DML] Re: LEDS-Battery Drain

["bitsyncmater" <david.mckeen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your battery if a yellow top is 48 amp/hour.  To drain it in two days 
you must have about a 1.0 amp load.  LEDs typicaly draw 30 ma for 
every three diodes/bulbs.  Hence a 6 LED bulb will draw 60 ma, a 12 
LED will draw 120 ma....etc.

Are you sure your door lights are off?  Or do you have so many LEDs 
that you are drawing 1 amp.?






--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Podlewski <john_podlewski@...> 
wrote:
>
> Question:
>   My new Optima battery drains only when the rear engine 
compartment is open.  Goes below 11 in two days.  I have numerous 
lights (7)in the engine bay, however they are all LEDS.  I have 
isolated it to that point but unable to figure where else to look.---
Or does the amount of Leds matter? Is that causing my problem?
>   Any help would be appreciated much.
> 
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