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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 1750199" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>The current between the battery and the alt will be the total current drawn be all loads in the car.  That alone doesn't tell you any more than what the alt is putting out at that time.  It gives you no indication of WHAT is drawing the current.  To check the battery, the easiest thing is just to take it to an autoparts place and get it checked.  I'm fully aware that the load could be a dying battery, but what you suggest will not diagnose what the problem is.  As knukonceptz said, checking the volts at the alt, the volts at the battery posts and the volts at the amp will give you a far better indication of where the loss is.  If that is what your post said, it was worded awkwardly enough that that is in no way what I got from it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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