Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
Ok... backstory... got a .17 amp draw on my battery, and am waiting on the alarm company to email me back as to the power consumption of the alarm system I have on the car now.
Anyway... my battery is getting on the lower end of the 'charged' scale as it sits in the car today, and I go out to start it, and it cranks really really slow.. tach keeps moving upwards slowly so I left it crank to see what it would do.. tach swept up past 4000.. then I figured I was heating up my starter, battery , and cables pretty good at that point, so I let off the starter.
Then I go to turn it again, and it seems as if the battery just got some extra juice, because the car is turning over twice as fast as it was before. Weird.. so I let it crank a few, mash the pedal to clear out the fuel, and let off the starter again.
The next time I turn the key, its faster than the other two times, pretty close to "normal" and she fires right up... but... my battery light was on.. until I blipped the throttle, then the interior electronics "pop" on like I just turned the key on....
I'm going to put some new cables on, and charge that battery up again... then see if I can't get it load tested or something... it's a 900amp, and only a year old.. shouldn't be bad, but who knows...
Isn't there a way that the "field" in the alternator or starter can leak ? Maybe its too early but I want to say there's a way voltage can leak out to ground thru an "electric motor".
This is the last of my little issues with this car, and I'd like to figure this out... thinking I might get under the hood, and clean up all the grounds again.. I wonder if my ECU ground might be bad... not really sure tho... feel like I've been over all the obvious stuff already..
Anyway... my battery is getting on the lower end of the 'charged' scale as it sits in the car today, and I go out to start it, and it cranks really really slow.. tach keeps moving upwards slowly so I left it crank to see what it would do.. tach swept up past 4000.. then I figured I was heating up my starter, battery , and cables pretty good at that point, so I let off the starter.
Then I go to turn it again, and it seems as if the battery just got some extra juice, because the car is turning over twice as fast as it was before. Weird.. so I let it crank a few, mash the pedal to clear out the fuel, and let off the starter again.
The next time I turn the key, its faster than the other two times, pretty close to "normal" and she fires right up... but... my battery light was on.. until I blipped the throttle, then the interior electronics "pop" on like I just turned the key on....
I'm going to put some new cables on, and charge that battery up again... then see if I can't get it load tested or something... it's a 900amp, and only a year old.. shouldn't be bad, but who knows...
Isn't there a way that the "field" in the alternator or starter can leak ? Maybe its too early but I want to say there's a way voltage can leak out to ground thru an "electric motor".
This is the last of my little issues with this car, and I'd like to figure this out... thinking I might get under the hood, and clean up all the grounds again.. I wonder if my ECU ground might be bad... not really sure tho... feel like I've been over all the obvious stuff already..
