It must an age thing.

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THE BUDDAH said:
different setting results on my tester, one set of figures are amp and the other volts.

Mike.
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Your lucky the metre or battery didn't blow up in your face. When you select current your metre effectively acts as a short circuit and shorting out the terminals on a battery is never a good thing. My metre has a 10amp fuse fitted to provide some protection.
 
Datatek said:
Unless of course it's a clamp meter:D
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No it's a small tester that has a red pin and a black pin.
Whenever I test the battery I put it on a setting of 200.
There is a setting at 10 oclock and 2 o'clock, both say 200 and I test the battery on both settings. Done it loads of times without any shocks, sparks or any other negative affects ( forgive the pun )..... Lol
 
THE BUDDAH said:
No it's a small tester that has a red pin and a black pin.
Whenever I test the battery I put it on a setting of 200.
There is a setting at 10 oclock and 2 o'clock, both say 200 and I test the battery on both settings. Done it loads of times without any shocks, sparks or any other negative affects ( forgive the pun )..... Lol
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You cannot test current uless you disconnect the battery and put the meter in series with the battery and the cable.
 
egor8384 said:
Rf reciever behind right hand trim panel in boot. Disconnect blue wire and see if helps. If so replace the unit
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Is this the right hand side as you look into the boot from the back of the car?

Sorry had to ask as have had some experience of somebody having trouble explaining before.....lol



Mike.
 
egor8384 said:
Rf reciever behind right hand trim panel in boot. Disconnect blue wire and see if helps. If so replace the unit
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I take it this is the RF Receiver.

RangeRoverp38RFreiver.jpg
 
Thats the little bugger with the lead in question disconnected, upgrade it when you can disconnecting it doesn't always deal with the probs but it will help.
 
THE BUDDAH said:
So will i still get battery drain with it disconnected?
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It is just an aerial for the RF module. Removing it reduces susceptibility to interference. The downside is that the fob only works from close to the rear o/s window.

The RF system is close in frequency range to a lot of gizmos that weren't common a decade ago, particularly weather stations. The interference causes the BECM to wake up and draw sufficient current to drain the battery quite quickly.

G~
 
Hi,

Does anyone have an idea?

Once iv'e checked the battery for any power loss after disconnecting the the blue wire on the RF Receiver if i still loose power what could be the next common fault?
 
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