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BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Aug 22, 2019

Batteries drained to dead, what is nominal drain on truck?

18 days into a 3 week holiday, things were mostly well until this morning, sigh, here we go again.... Parked the truck at the campsite day before yesterday afternoon. Didn't run it yesterday. Went ...
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steved28
Explorer
Aug 22, 2019
theoldwizard1 wrote:
JiminDenver wrote:
Bob, get a DC clamp meter. So much easier.

Clamp meters are not always accurate below 1A. Not sure if 0.1A (100mA) would register on some.


Still, should be standard equipment for every RV'er who knows about current. I use mine all the time.

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