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How would you find a short in a car. It is draining my battery at night?

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Remove the negative battery cable from its post and connect an ammeter red probe to the negative battery post and the black probe to the negative battery cable. Now start pulling fuses until the voltage on the meter returns to normal. (anything above a half of a volt is too high) The fuse you pulled to get this result is the affected circuit. Now you have to probe it from its B+ source to the load
to find the short. Check all connectors for rust and the line for opens or shorting to ground. Repair accordingly.

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