I know these forums are normally for questions, but what better than a question with the answer already supplied; to save you typing.
I've been having problems with battery flattening on my just-bought 04 Accord Touring. A current clamp meter on a freshly charged battery showed a key-off, door closed current of 250mA. Further tests showed this was going through the Back Up, ACC fuse 15 under the bonnet and the Back Up fuse 7 in the interior fuse box. Your site (and the rest of the web) connects this fuse to a vast and probably expensive range of on-board systems and certainly removing it disables sat-nav, stereo, remote locking and central locking, the loss of which is pretty annoying.
I suspected the satnav, which instantly knows where I am when I turn the car on and must therefore be tracking the satellites while the car is off, but when I was trying to find out how to disconnect it, I came across this
http://www.civinfo.com/wiki/index.php?***le=Flat_battery
which describes how an active sensor on the CAN bus can stop the bus entering its sleep mode.
Now, I knew the handle of the tailgate was a bit sticky and a bit more testing showed that if I shut the handle properly, the current draw went down to 50mA and if I wiggled it out a bit, the current went back up to 250mA, enough to drain the battery in a week.
So, that's something else to look out for if your battery's going flat.
I've been having problems with battery flattening on my just-bought 04 Accord Touring. A current clamp meter on a freshly charged battery showed a key-off, door closed current of 250mA. Further tests showed this was going through the Back Up, ACC fuse 15 under the bonnet and the Back Up fuse 7 in the interior fuse box. Your site (and the rest of the web) connects this fuse to a vast and probably expensive range of on-board systems and certainly removing it disables sat-nav, stereo, remote locking and central locking, the loss of which is pretty annoying.
I suspected the satnav, which instantly knows where I am when I turn the car on and must therefore be tracking the satellites while the car is off, but when I was trying to find out how to disconnect it, I came across this
http://www.civinfo.com/wiki/index.php?***le=Flat_battery
which describes how an active sensor on the CAN bus can stop the bus entering its sleep mode.
Now, I knew the handle of the tailgate was a bit sticky and a bit more testing showed that if I shut the handle properly, the current draw went down to 50mA and if I wiggled it out a bit, the current went back up to 250mA, enough to drain the battery in a week.
So, that's something else to look out for if your battery's going flat.
