93 Jeep Wrangler Parasitic Drain

67Dart273 said

You mentioned forest for the trees. You KNOW what circuit it's on

I assume you are measuring drain current at the main battery lead so as to measure "all" draw?

Keep in the back of your mind "you sure" your multimeter is correct? As much trouble you are having, might be worthwhile to check

Otherwise, it's the painstaking job of checking every single thing on that fuse. I think my first test would be to unplug the engine computer.

Some other thoughts:

How long does this take to kill the battery? 70ma is really not all that much, but IS more that "normal" should be. Some cars seem to drain at about 30ma nowadays..

Was the battery actually load tested? What did this show, IE amp hours, etc?

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The meter is a fluke and it did have a blown 10 amp current fuse in the beginning, I replaced that and the low current fuse checked good plus I have another meter besides the Fluke and they read the same for ma. I am testing between the battery post and disconnected lead, have done both negative and positive. The battery is two years old with 6 months of it's life sitting disconnected while my son was on a deployment, he returned, connected the battery and the Jeep started, he drove it for a couple of weeks with no issues and shipped it out here to WA. I took the battery back to Auto Zone, it's only a Duralast, they charged it all day, load tested it called it good and I don't disagree with that. I believe the battery will last appx 3 days, I've been doing so much fuse pulling troubleshooting, really wasn't putting much effort into it until I got it narrowed down a little. I will unplug the engine computer, I haven't tried that yet, thanks.