Battery Drain Problem...Please Help

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Ok heres the problem I have, my car has a drain on the battery and I don't know where. I located what wire it is, but I don't know exactly where the wire leads (White wire comming out of the positive terminal). I know that this wire leads to the fuse/relay box behind the battery, and is connected to the alternater relay. But after removing the negative on the battery and connecting a volt meter to re-establish a charge, I removed the alternator relay thinking that would make the charge on the battery disappear, wrong. There was still a charge being drawn from the battery. So that white wire must split off into more than one direction after gettting to the fuse/relay box. Oh and by the way I did remove the alternator and have it tested and there was no problem with...and the same goes for the starter. If anyone knows where this wire goes. can you please help a brother out, and if someone has a wiring diagram that would be fantastic.

Please help...my baby has been sitting in the backyard now for over two months with this problem (battery disconnected of course).


NISTECH
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you need to do the test with all the doors closed the alarm in sleep mode, the hood pin switch for the alarm if you have one unplugged. then place you negative lead of your tester on the center of the neg terminal [note your battery is still connected at this point] place the postitive lead on the cable end. now loosen and lift you negative battery cable off the battery without breaking contact with the 2 test leads. That is the proper way to do a battery draw test.


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