Only take the Felly out once or twice a week these days and even after putting a new battery on, I'm still finding the battery a bit sluggish sometimes, so, I want to connect the stereo up to a proper switched 12v supply instead of the permanent 12v standard supply (obviously I'll be leaving the memory connected to the permanent 12v supply...)

Is there an easy to get to switched supply I can get to? I've already got the glove box out.

On my other cars in the past it was quite easy to get to the steering column mounted ignition switch wiring, haven't had need to remove the switch in the felly as yet... and it looks a bit of a pain...

Is putting the stereo on a switched circuit really going to help anything? Perhaps the starter motor is getting a bit weak?

there are a couple in the fuse box, just stick a male spade on the +12v wire and stick it into one of the unused ports for a relay, , you will need to test first to find one tho as I can't remember which are ign fed now.

oh and fuse it with inline fuse lol.

Is putting the stereo on a switched circuit really going to help anything? Perhaps the starter motor is getting a bit weak?

I was thinking that at first, but once the battery was taken off and trickle charged over night it starts fine, I think it's the simple fact of my journeys only being 10/12 mile round trips, and then it's sat for anything up to 4/5 days before being used again that's my main problem...I'm just trying to make sure there is nothing that can drain the battery (and whose idea was it to have a permanently live stereo anyway? :wonder: - silly idea...)

Cheers Felicia 16v, I'll have a poke around with my meter tomorrow, I think I've got a few male spade connectors rattling around in the bottom of my toolbox somewhere... (and plenty of in-line fuses from the old days of CB radio...)

There's no way an original Felicia fitted with factory equipment (alarm, radio, etc.) should draw more than 25 mA in stand-by.

I found occasionally that boot lamp may stay on for a bad lock contact. Check interior lamp circuit too.

If stand-by current is < 25 mA, then

1) alternator doesn't charge enough (in my country they don't give you any warranty for a new battery till they don't check the recharging current) or

2) the new battery is low quality.

There's no way an original Felicia fitted with factory equipment (alarm, radio, etc.) should draw more than 25 mA in stand-by.

I found occasionally that boot lamp may stay on for a bad lock contact. Check interior lamp circuit too.

If stand-by current is < 25 mA, then

1) alternator doesn't charge enough (in my country they don't give you any warranty for a new battery till they don't check the recharging current) or

2) the new battery is low quality.

I'd second the boot light. I only found out that mine was staying on when I started leaving the load cover out. I'd shut the boot and it would be off but shutting one of the other doors or hitting a bump in the road was enough to turn it back on. One from an earlier car has a switch built in and is a straight swap.

yes there is in the fuse box there is a wire thats switched live its the one used for electric windows heres a pic

http://i1205.photobu...d7d1b8f618c.jpg

i found my boot light would just come one when it wanted and made alarm go off and one night i see it glowing now fixed...

Edited 9 May, 201313 yr by uma1998