Normal drain on Battery?

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I could not find this after a quick search. What is the normal drain on the battery while the engine is off? What is the draw for the clock, odometer, engine management computer ??
My two year old battery died, I'm wondering if I have a short. I measured 170 milliamps with the engine off. That sounds a little high?
TIA
Bob

 

[st1300r]

That sounds high. About 3 days to a dead battery.

I don't know why but I have the idea in my head it should be 25ma. max.
Anybody have a reference? You'd think the clock would be much less than that.
The ODO would be non volatile memory I think.

 

[STOC# 889]

That's what I was getting, 2 or 3 days to dead battery. Solved my mystery. My Scorpio Alarm was pulling most of the 170 mA. The bike came with it two years ago, I don't use it. But the alarm decided now was the time to short, I guess. Disconnected it and the current dropped to almost nothing, 10 or 20 mA. I feel much better, heading out on a 3 day tour.

 

[Paul]

The key off current draw test in the manual states 2.5ma max draw. Here are a couple of articles on parasitic voltage drop testing, that show a cool way to check circuits that might be at fault.

The second article contains a voltage to current conversion chart for different size fuses which is very handy.

www.motor.com/article_pdf_download.asp?article_ID=1701


http://www.vestest.com/HowtodoParasiticdraintestacrossfuses.pdf