Thread: battery drain?
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Old Fri, October 23rd, 2009, 10:54 AM
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Interesting that this is the case, but I suppose not entirely surprising. My truck sits for extended periods (especially in the summer when I drive my "summer only" car) and I finally had the battery drain to the point where it wouldn't start the other day. A quick jump and I was back on the road though.

My truck sits outside year round though so a battery tender isn't as good an option for me (especially so when it's parked on the street).

I guess I'll probably start unplugging the gyphon now to keep this from happening again. I also decided that the auto headlights (they come on when you unlock the truck when on that setting) are probably not helping either so I flipped those off.

Hopefully those will do the trick, but I'm tempted to get a new battery before winter anyway. I hear the DieHard Platinum are top of the line. Anyone here have opinions?

-Matt