Battery light in dash comes on

Asked by GuruC7LSV Mar 11, 2019 at 04:33 PM about the 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier Sedan FWD

Question type: General

I replaced the battery alt ,startrrand the tensoner and still
my battery goes dead

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Obviously, something is draining the battery and if your charging components are good and recently replaced, you may need to find the drain by isolating circuits. To do this, hook an amp meter between the positive battery terminal and the positive lead from the battery. See what it reads (it should be zero with the car off). If you get a reading, no matter how small, start pulling fuses until it drops to zero. That is circuit the drain is on. Once you know the circuit, you can then look at the things powered by that circuit and do the same thing. Instead of fuses though disconnect things like bulbs, switches, connectors, etc. Also look at ground connections to these things and watch for excessive corrosion as well. Good luck.

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search " parasitic drain " for more info. You'll use the milli amp dc feature on a multi tester , 50 milli amps is acceptable , you should wait 30 min. for timers to run out , as I remember but you should check it out , I told one guy to pull fuses in the dark and if you see an arc then there's your problem , maybe

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