Current draw on battery, possibly glowshift gauges?

[Desperauto]

Interesting my HB is one year old and the battery did the same thing, I have gauges also and a stereo amp +++ and an alarm system. The battery would keep going dead. I realize that the alarm pulls current but not that much. I finally put the battery under and extreme test and found that one of the cells in the battery was shorting out and draining the battery. They must use cheap batterys in the factory install. It gave me the excuse to put in a yellow top, even though they cost 3 times as much.

[IllusionX]

Originally Posted by Desperauto

Interesting my HB is one year old and the battery did the same thing, I have gauges also and a stereo amp +++ and an alarm system. The battery would keep going dead. I realize that the alarm pulls current but not that much. I finally put the battery under and extreme test and found that one of the cells in the battery was shorting out and draining the battery. They must use cheap batterys in the factory install. It gave me the excuse to put in a yellow top, even though they cost 3 times as much.

Panasonic seem to be making pretty bad batteries lately. I'm hearing several cases of OEM batteries going bad. But Toyota dealers here replaces with "toyota" batteries, mfg'd by East Penn, and are 550amp vs 330amp panasonic.

[goku87]

Unhooked the power from the gauges. Battery was fine many many hours later. Why are my gauges pulling so much current?

[firemachine69]

Originally Posted by Desperauto

They must use cheap batterys in the factory install.

They do. My completely stock Yaris (minus speakers that draw nothing while they're off) needed a boost the other day. POS car...